Question

Have have a simple select * from myTable query, and a column called Fruits

Fruits has the following data:

Apple
Pear
Peach
Plum
Grape

I always want Grape first and then the rest of them in order so the result would be

Grape
Apple
Peach
Pear
Plum

As always thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I would try something like this:

DECLARE @myTable TABLE([Fruits] VARCHAR(20))
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES('Apple')
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES('Pear')
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES('Peach')
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES('Plum')
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES('Grape')

SELECT * 
FROM @myTable
ORDER BY
    CASE WHEN([Fruits] = 'Grape') THEN 0 ELSE 1 END,
    [Fruits]

In the ORDER BY, you are assigning a value when the [Fruits] field is Grape so you can sort on that first, and then you do a secondary sort on the [Fruits] field.