Question

I have a table in MYSQL with a column called league.

When I try to sort the values using this query I cant get it to sort correctly.

SELECT DISTINCT (
t.league
)
FROM teams t
GROUP BY t.league
ORDER BY t.league ASC 

However with this I get:

11a12
13
14
15
16a17
5a7
8a10

it looks like it sorts all of them correctly except the last two

Any ideas?

thanks

Answer 1

Yes, the column must be of a string type and 5 comes AFTER 11. You might consider changing those fields (which seem to be multivaluated) into 2 separate numeric fields (or even 3 if that a value makes any difference)