ORDER BY &&<VarChar Field&&>

May 23, 2006

Hi group,

I've got a table with two columns named [Year] and [Month]. They are both defined as VarChar.

Question:
Is it possible to ORDER THEM as if they where of type DateTime?

EG
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from tbl_WeightedAverageGenerated
where [Year] = 2006
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Returns:
2006, 10
2006, 11
2006, 12
2006, 5
2006, 6
etc...

I need it to return:
2006 5
2006 6
2006 7
2006 8
2006 9
2006 10

2006 11

2006 12

Is this possible....and how??

TIA

Regards,

SDerix

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