Question

My script has:

  select * from users where...

The where clause will have two parts, and they need to be ordered this way:

  1. where description = "query"

  2. where description = "%query%"

Is there some way to do where description= “query” as 1 or description = “%query%” as 2 and sort on that?

Answer 1

Use:

SELECT a.*,
       1 AS sort
  FROM USERS a
 WHERE a.description LIKE 'query'
UNION ALL
SELECT b.*,
       2 AS sort
  FROM USERS b
 WHERE b.description LIKE '%query%'
ORDER BY sort