I think I answered my own question, I used CAST() to set the type in the ORDER BY statement. cast(s11.data as unsigned) Thx to me! Matt On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:21, Matt Babineau wrote: > Hi all- > > 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? > > Thanks, > Matt -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php