Question

I have an issue when I sort desc/asc on a column in a database it sorts it like this.

9980
91
883
51
507
460
286
243
23
2131

Now I figured this is because I made the colum varchar. Is anyway to get it to sort correctly without changing to the column to int?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want the items to be sorted as if they were numbers, cast them to an integer:

ORDER BY CAST (field AS SIGNED INTEGER)