Question

I am having some trouble ordering using MySQL as when using the standard

ORDER BY c DESC 

it is ordering in like this:

3
21
20
2

I want it to be order like this:

21
20
3
2

Is there any way I can do this without adding 0 before the single digit numbers?

Answer 1

Change your column from a string (VARCHAR, TEXT, etc.) to a numeric one (DOUBLE, INT, etc.). A string will be sorted alphabetically, and 3 comes after 2.

Or, you can cast it, but this adds processing to the query:

ORDER BY CAST(c AS INTEGER) DESC