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Asked: 2026-05-17T22:45:50+00:00

example – select * from discussion where title like ‘%india%’ UNION select * from

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example – 

select * from discussion where title like '%india%' 
UNION 
select * from discussion where title like '%Australia%'

It shows me results in order of discussion IDs mixing both typse of results

I want to display India results first then Australia’s results and I cant use Option ALl as I need to remove duplicate rows also.

What should be done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could add a column to order on

    select *, 1 as ORD from discussion where title like '%india%' 
UNION 
select *, 2 as ORD from discussion where title like '%Australia%'

order by ORD

    EDIT – 29/11/2010

    Due to the duplicate with ORD problem i was thinking about a, maybe, more elegant way to achive this

    Select * from discussion
where title like '%india%' or title like '%Australia%'
order by (case when title like '%india%'then 1 else 2 end)
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