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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:48:04+00:00

I am doing a join on two tables. One is a user’s table and

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I am doing a join on two tables. One is a user’s table and the other a list of premium users. I need to have the premium members show up first in my query. However, just because they are in the premium user table doesn’t mean they are still a premium member – there is an IsActive field that also needs to be checked.

So basically I need to return the results in the following order:

  • Active Premium Users
  • Regular and Inactive Premium Users

Right now I have it as the following:

SELECT Users.MemberId, PremiumUsers.IsActive FROM Users LEFT JOIN PremiumUsers ON PremiumUsers.UserId = Users.Id ORDER BY PremiumUsers.IsActive DESC

The problem with this is that it places non-active premium members above non-premium members.

(I’m using MS SQL Server 2005 for this)

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  1. ORDER BY COALESCE(PremiumUsers.IsActive, 0) DESC

    That will group the NULLs with not-actives.

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