Question

I have a query like this

SELECT [Year], Month, AVG(salary) AS [salary] FROM table1 
    GROUP BY [Year],[Month]
    ORDER BY Year,Month

But the months are populated as jan, feb,… etc. When i say order by month I will be ordering them by letters. I was thinking if there is any scope like giving jan as 1, feb as 2 and so on and then sorting on the number

Answer 1

try to use following:

ORDER BY Year, CASE Month WHEN 'Jan' THEN 1 WHEN 'Feb' THEN 2 .... END

Fill in .... with the rest of months.