Question

I got a set of results like this:

| id |
| 1  |
| 2  |
| 3  |
| 4  |

I’m trying to get

| id |
| 4  |
| 1  |
| 2  |
| 3  |

Is there any elegant way to achieve this using an SQL script?

Answer 1

You can use the mod operator, % to ORDER BY

DECLARE @maxId AS INT
SELECT @maxId = MAX(Id) FROM MyTable

SELECT id FROM MyTable
ORDER BY Id % @maxId 

You can get further rotations by adding to Id, ie

ORDER BY (Id + 1) % @maxId

get you

3
4
1
2

Working SQL Fiddle (which I just found out exists)
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/a7f15/5