Question

Hey i can’t seem to be able to solve this, i have this query :

SELECT  DISTINCT CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), time, 4) AS Batch  
FROM Calls 
ORDER BY Batch

Which orders the columns by days and not as regular date, meaning i get something like :

1.11.12
1.12.12
2.11.12
3.11.12
4.11.12

How am i able to solve this?
if i try and order by time, the query won’t distinct the values and messes up my all query.

Meaning this :

SELECT  DISTINCT CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), time, 4) AS Batch , time 
FROM Calls 
ORDER BY time, Batch

Orders the query fine but won’t distinct the values.

Answer 1

try this

SELECT  DISTINCT CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), time, 4) AS Batch
FROM Calls 
ORDER BY time, Batch

update:

select convert(varchar(8), time, 4) as [Batch]
from [Calls]
group by convert(varchar(8), time, 4)
order by convert(datetime, convert(varchar(8), time, 4), 4)

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