Question

i have table with status column

CREATE TABLE movies
(
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
title varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
status int NOT NULL
);

status could be between 1 and 4
and i want to sort the result by status

i can easily sort my query by status asc and desc and get the rows with 1 and 4 as value on the top

$sql = "SELECT * FROM tbl order by `status` ASC";

but how can i get 2 and 3 on the top of result ?

Answer 1

select *
from tbl
order by case when status in (2, 3) then 0 else 1 end, 
    `status`