Question

To order by name I’m using 'order by name‘

But the names contain double colons : '::'

How can I order by the text that occurs subsequent to the double colons ?

So :

aaaa::bbbb
aaaa::aaaa
aaaa::1234
aaaa::a1234

Will be ordered :

aaaa::1234
aaaa::aaaa
aaaa::a1234
aaaa::bbbb

Answer 1

Order by the substring ans use locate to find where it starts:

order by substring(name, locate('::', name) + 3, 30)

It’ll decrease performance since no index will be used.