Question

I have a simple membership database; when returning the membership list, I ORDER BY surname… All simple so far.

I have a newMember field (a simple 0 or 1 TINYINT) which is used to toggle ‘new’ members for the administrator to approve.

I want to sort by surname but if newMember = 1 then put these at the top (preferable in surname order) to get a result like:

* NEW * Joe BLOGGS
* NEW * Simon CAMPS
* NEW * James ZULU
Sonny ALI
Daniel BRAVO
Addie WINDOW

I am certain there is way to do this with a CASE statement but cannot quite get my head around it… Any ideas?

Answer 1

you can add more field to the order clause

like: order by newMember desc, surname