Question

I have been given an interesting challenge by my boss. We have a dataset to extract certain advertisers on a page but if you are an advertiser who is logged in, he wants to make sure that persons ad shows first. Here is the script as it stand right now:

SELECT TOP 15
a.MemberID,             -- 0
a.UserName,             -- 1
a.MemberDisplayName,    -- 2
a.NYKABizName           -- 3
FROM Member a
INNER JOIN AdDisplay b ON b.MemberID = a.MemberID
WHERE a.Claimed = 'Y'
AND a.NYKACatID IS NOT NULL
AND b.LocalPageID = @LocalPageID
AND a.SBIcon = 'N'
AND a.Viewable = 'Y'
AND a.ProfileTypeID <> 1
AND a.PackageType <> 'G'
AND a.PackageType <> 'P'
AND a.PackageType <> 'C'
ORDER BY PackageType ASC

I want to add some like Include MemberID = 102. How can I change this script to accomplish the bosses wishes.

Many thanks in advance,

neojakey

Answer 1

Assuming that the query returns the advertiser in question (without the top 15), you can do this my modifying the order by clause:

order by (case when MemberId = 102 then 0 else 1 end),
         PackageType ASC

This orders the list putting the desired member first, followed by everything else. You can still keep the top 15 in the query.