Question

I have data like this:

I wanna order the data, and the result will be like this:
CHECKING_ACCT_MONTHS
--------------------
11-2011
10-2011
09-2011
AVERAGE
in another words, the data will ordered descending, but the AVERAGE data will be at the bottom. How can I do that,.?

Answer 1

Query should be …

SELECT * 
  FROM TableName
 ORDER BY 
    CASE 
      WHEN CHECKING_ACCT_MONTHS = 'AVERAGE' 
      THEN 1 ELSE 0 
   END, 
   CHECKING_ACCT_MONTHS DESC