Question

how can i return these in this order:

1: aaaa
2: bbbb
3: the cccc
4: dddd

So ignoreing the leading ‘the’

currently im using.

select * from houses order by name asc

and its returning it in this order.

1: aaaa
2: bbbb
3: dddd
4: the cccc

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to remove the the for the order by then you can use:

select id, name
from yourtable
order by replace(name, 'the ', '')

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

Or:

select id, name
from yourtable
order by ltrim(replace(name, 'the', ''))

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

Or even use this following:

select id, name
from yourtable
order by 
  case 
    when substring(name, 1, 4) = 'the ' 
    then substring(name, 5) 
    else name end

See SQL Fiddle with Demo