Question

I am doing a sorting on a table to show the records with status having 3 first then status having 4 and then 1.

in current table this is the output

id    status
 1     3
 2     4
 3     4
 4     3
 5     1

now when i apply the query

select * from table order by model.status desc 

the output is:

id    status
 2     4
 3     4
 1     3
 4     3
 5     1

what i want actually the below output. first with status 3 then with status 4 and then with status 1. How to achieve the below output

id    status
 1     3
 4     3
 2     4
 3     4
 5     1

Answer 1

instead of a magic 9999999 number, you can use ~0, which represents the maximum possible value for big int… should be enough 😉

order by (case when status = 1 then ~0 else status end) 

other solution, without any magic number

order by status = 1 , status

which will sort by a “boolean” (0 or 1 in DB) first, then by status