Question

I have this mssql query

SELECT TOP 50 [id], [title], [url], [icon], linkstats.visits 
FROM [websites] LEFT OUTER JOIN [linkstats] ON websites.id=linkstats.lid AND linkstats.code=@country 
WHERE (([country] = @country OR [country]= 'all') AND 
      ([hot] = @hot)) 
ORDER BY linkstats.visits DESC

I want to order by nulls to the end and if all are nulls then order by ID
How to do that?!

Answer 1

use CASE

SELECT TOP 50 [id], [title], [url], [icon], linkstats.visits 
FROM [websites] LEFT OUTER JOIN [linkstats] ON websites.id=linkstats.lid AND linkstats.code=@country 
WHERE (([country] = @country OR [country]= 'all') AND 
      ([hot] = @hot)) 
ORDER BY CASE WHEN linkstats.lid IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END,
         linkstats.visits DESC