Question

We are querying database to retrieve data in following fashion

select a,b,…f from table1 where id in (6,33,1,78,2)

The result I got from query is in following order 1,2,6,33,78.

I want the result in same order (6,33,1,78,2). Is there any way to retrieve the data in same order.

EDIT
*I am using SQL 2008*

Answer 1

add this order by clause

order by case 
         when id = 6 then 1 
         when id = 33 then 2  
         when id = 1 then 3  
         when id = 78 then 4  
         when id = 2 then 5  
      end

If using MySQL you can do this

ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(id, '6,33,1,78,2')