Question

NOTE : I have edited my question because of my input data present in database table.

I have a table and it consists varchar data. The data present inside that column is like this.

"bcd"
cde
abcd
'xxx'
(zzz)

Now I want to sort according to alphabetical order. I have tried this query

select my_col from tbl_user order by ltrim(REPLACE(my_col,'"', '')) ASC

Its’ output is as follows :

'xxx'
(zzz)
abcd
"bcd"
cde

But my desired output is, means while sorting it has to sort according to alphabetical order whether " present or not.

abcd
"bcd"
cde
'xxx'
(zzz)

How can I achieve this??. any ideas.

Answer 1

You could do a replace on the quotes, for example:

select my_col 
from tbl_user 
order by ltrim(REPLACE(my_col,'"', '')) ASC

But this would add a lot of overhead… maybe there is a built-in solution which would be more efficient.