Question

Stackoverflowers,
I want to select from a MYSQL table and show ID 54 in the end of the MYSQL query, I made the following code but it conflicts with the ORDER:

SELECT * FROM owners WHERE id <= 53
UNION
SELECT * FROM owners WHERE id >= 55
ORDER BY owner
UNION
SELECT * FROM owners WHERE id = 54

I think it is very buggy even if it worked, can you help?

Answer 1

If you just want to put 54 at the end, perhaps you could shortened your query to this:

SELECT * FROM owners 
WHERE id <= 53 or id >= 55 or id = 54
ORDER BY 
   id = 54, 
   owner

False sorts first, true sorts last. Other database do it this way:

SELECT * FROM owners 
WHERE id <= 53 or id >= 55 or id = 54
ORDER BY 
   case when id = 54 then 1 else 0 end, 
   owner

But that is funny, remove the condition altogether:

SELECT * FROM owners 

ORDER BY 
   case when id = 54 then 1 else 0 end, 
   owner