Question

For clarification, are you able to use MySQL this way to sort?

ORDER BY CompanyID = XXX DESC

What I am trying to do is use one sql query to sort everything where X = Y, in this case, where CompanyID = XXX. All values where CompanyID is not XXX should come after all the results where CompanyID = XXX.

I don’t want to limit my query but I do want to sort a particular company above other listings.

Answer 1

Your query is fine. CompanyID = xxx yields 1 on a match, and 0 otherwise. Just add the CompanyID column as the secondary order column.

ORDER BY CompanyID = XXX DESC, CompanyID ASC

This way, you get records where the CompanyID matches your constant first, then the rest are in order.

Alternatively, you could do this:

ORDER BY CompanyID <> XXX ASC, CompanyID ASC