Question

I need to make the order by for the nvarchar column. The issue is this that the column doesn’t have the same pattern of entry, example of some rows of the column are

12    
9     
TEF      
78F    
T2R

How to sort this column by order By clause? The only relief I have is that this column contains only numeric and alpha numeric characters.

Answer 1

ORDER BY
   RIGHT(REPLICATE(N' ', 500) + MyValue, 500)

So

9
12
78F
T2R
TEF 

becomes

            9
           12
          78F
          T2R
          TEF 

Which will sort correctly

You can’t rely on ISNUMERIC