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... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
