Arranging mysql data

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July 1st, 2009, 04:15 AM

sukanya.paul

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Arranging mysql data

hi i have a table which has a field called month whose values are
January,February,March etc in no particular order

i am selecting all daya from this table and the month values are in the following order:
January
November
December
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October

i want it to be displayed in the proper order
January
February
March
..
..
..
December

Can some1 please help me with this.
Thanks in advance
Suk

July 1st, 2009, 05:19 AM

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Code:

ORDER 
    BY POSITION( LEFT(monthname,3) 
          IN 'JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec' )

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July 2nd, 2009, 09:18 AM

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You could also do something like this:

Code:

SELECT monthname 
  FROM monthnames 
 ORDER 
      BY STR_TO_DATE(monthname,'%M');

July 2nd, 2009, 09:50 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cafelatte

STR_TO_DATE(monthname,'%M');

that works, but it's a pretty bad hack

Code:

SELECT monthname 
     , STR_TO_DATE(monthname,'%M') as m
  FROM monthnames 
;
monthname  m
January    0000-01-00
November   0000-11-00
December   0000-12-00
February   0000-02-00
March      0000-03-00
April      0000-04-00
May        0000-05-00
June       0000-06-00
July       0000-07-00
August     0000-08-00
September  0000-09-00
October    0000-10-00

those "dates" are abysmally bad

July 2nd, 2009, 02:21 PM

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The ideal situation would be to store the month as an INT and do the translation to long name during the query or application execution. If it is part of a multiple-field storage of date information it would be best to simply consolidate to a single DATE type and extract the relevant data with the appropriate functions.

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