Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Doing some googling and looking through the docs, I can't find an
> obvious way to do this beside post processing after the query (which I
> am trying to avoid).
>
> I'm trying to select a list of names in alphabetical order but
> ignoring the whitespace.
>
> So for example, the name "La Combe" should come after "Lace" but
> before "Lacs..."
>
> Any ideas?
Could you do it like this:
SELECT replace(name_column, ' ', '') AS name_replaced
FROM your_table_name
ORDER BY name_replaced
This can get a bit slowish if your table has quite a number of rows.
Mike