Question

I came across a situation where i want to sort the mysql query result in alphabetical order ignoring the case… I mean

Al

aasd

Cfds 

ddafsf

…

I found a solution where convert every element of the result into either lower or upper case and use Order By ..I didnt like this approach… http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html .. Read this article….. But i grasped nothing…Just wanna know how can this be done… cheers…

Answer 1

why not use ASC directly,

SELECT *
FROM   tableName
ORDER  BY columnName ASC