Question

So I have a query that I am using for labels in a bar graph. I am extracting those labels using fetch_array in PHP. The label order should be:

White, African American, Hispanic etc etc.

but once we do any type order by asc or desc they come in alphabetical order such as

African American, Hispanic, White. Is there a way to order these specifically in a certain order?

Answer 1

Use a CASE statement to specify your sort order. It will assign 0 to the value White and 1 to all other values, then sort the remaining values alphabetically.

ORDER BY
  CASE WHEN label='White' THEN 0 ELSE 1 END,
  label ASC