Question

I’ve tried a few things, but I’m drawing a blank. Here’s my query:

SELECT * 
    FROM Companies 
WHERE 
    Symbol LIKE 'ZY%' OR 
    Name LIKE '%ZY%' 
ORDER BY Symbol ASC
LIMIT 2;

Basically I want “ZY” to match (ZNGA, Zynga Inc) before it matches (HALO, Halozyme Therapeuti…).

Obviously the reason for the order is this part of the query:

ORDER BY Symbol

Am I missing something obvious here?

Answer 1

You simply need to add it to the Order By clause

SELECT * FROM Companies WHERE Symbol LIKE 'ZY%' OR Name LIKE '%ZY%' 
ORDER BY 
  (CASE WHEN Symbol LIKE 'ZY%' THEN 1
        WHEN Name LIKE '%ZY%' THEN 2
        END),
Symbol ASC;