Question

I have a column of name, varchar(200).
In this column data can be filled in hebrew and english.

I have code that does queries on this DB, I want to have the option to sort the results – first hebrew and then english – and the other way as well.

How can it be done? if at all…

Answer 1

This would sort any name with a Hebrew character on top, and in Hebrew order. The other names would be sorted in English order:

select  *
from    YourTable
order by
        case 
        when name like '%[... all hebrew letters here ...]%' then name
        end collate Hebrew_CI_AS
,       name collate Latin1_General_CI_AS

In a collation, CI means Case Insensitive. AS means Accent Sensitive.