sorting on the first 8 digits....

From: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:59:25 +0000
Subject: sorting on the first 8 digits....
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Ok, I did something stupid and now I am paying the price... In an internal database that tracks the time and date something happens on our site, I mistakenly forgot to use leading zeros in the 24 hour column(s). So, anything that happens between 1-9 am are all short by one digit. Now, I need to create a report that shows these transactions in the order that they happened. The answer to this problem should be as simple as adding a zero to the end of all records that are short one digit. But, for reasons that I won't explain here, that isn't possible. So, my question is this, is there a way to do a database call that would select all the records but allow me to order them based on the first 8 digits only? If you would like an example, I need the following two numbers to come up in the order listed. 20011012182929 2001111411322 Thanks for your time. John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

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