Question

I have a MySQL database and a have a funny question.

I need to order the results of a query by a field which has entries of 1,2,3 or 4, ordered descending but with 4 at the end.

So I wish to have the results in the following order

3’s
2’s
1’s
4’s

Is this possible at all?

I know I can do order the result array in php but unfortunately I need to do this in an sql statement.

Answer 1

If the field is an int,

ORDER BY (fieldname = 4) DESC, fieldname DESC

should do the trick.