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June 3rd, 2004, 10:14 AM
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Order by part of a field
I'm having 'one of those days'
 and have hit a brick wall that I currently can't get round/over/through.I want to run a query that selects various fields from an address table. I want to order the data by the first 3 chars of the postcode field as to order by the whole postcode field is too specific for my needs and throws the rest of my data out in a way I do not want it. Is there anyway to modify the 'order by postcode' bit of my statement to reflect the fact I only actually want it ordered by the 'AA1' bit and not the whole 'AA11AA'. Hope this makes sense - kinda got myself confused now Many thanks
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June 3rd, 2004, 10:21 AM
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Code:
order by substring(postcode,1,3)
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June 3rd, 2004, 10:43 AM
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Many thanks
 Took a break, thought about it for a bit and discovered LEFT which worked too. But substring is much better as I can use this for all my weird string needs and hopefully as I'll use it lots now I know it I'll remember it. Thanks again 
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