Question

I am using SQL reporting service and working on paramters. One of paramters contains a list of cities. So, I have a dataset that

select city from MyCities

What I would like to do is to add a string for selecting all cities. So, I modifed the query to do something like

select city from Mycities union select 'ALL'

Only problem with this is that I want to show on the top of list so that it will be first itme on the list.

Is there a way I can sort the list so that it shows “All” first and followed by the name of actual cities?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I do this a lot and typically just wrap it with special characters, so that it stands out as well:

  SELECT City
  FROM (
    SELECT City
    FROM MyCities
    UNION SELECT '<<ALL>>'
  ) X
  ORDER BY City;

That will push it to the top of the list