Re: changing datatypes in the query
| From: | CPT John W. Holmes | Date: | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:15:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: changing datatypes in the query | ||
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From: "Matt Babineau" <list_mysql@criticalcode.com>
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:21, Matt Babineau wrote:
> > Tough question (I think). I am pulling some numbers out of a data base,
> > currently they are stored in a blob. When I try to "order by user_hits
> > desc" it does a text ordering, not a numerical ordering. Is there a way
> > to get it to do a numeric ordering?
>
> I think I answered my own question, I used CAST() to set the type in the
> ORDER BY statement.
>
> cast(s11.data as unsigned)
Here's a crazy idea. How about storing numerical data in a numerical column?
---John Holmes...