Question

I am trying a different kind of sorting in Oracle.Its like I have three columns namely Date ,Start Time & End Time and I need to sort the column in the following fashion.

If the current time is in between Start Time and End time then that row should come @ the top.Otherwise it should be sorted by normal ascending order.

Right now my query looks like this

select * from details order by date,start_time

How can I take current time into consideration while sorting?

Answer 1

First idea that came to my mind:

SELECT *
FROM   details
ORDER  BY ( CASE WHEN date_column BETWEEN start_time AND end_time THEN 0 ELSE 1 END )
        , date_column
        , start_time;