Re: Ordering a name list and ignoring whitespace

Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Doing some googling and looking through the docs, I can't find an
> obvious way to do this beside post processing after the query (which I
> am trying to avoid).
>
> I'm trying to select a list of names in alphabetical order but
> ignoring the whitespace.
>
> So for example, the name "La Combe" should come after "Lace" but
> before "Lacs..."
>
> Any ideas?

Could you do it like this:

SELECT
replace(name_column, ' ', '') AS name_replaced
FROM
your_table_name
ORDER BY
name_replaced

This can get a bit slowish if your table has quite a number of rows.

Mike