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I know this is a bit old at this point, but in my search for a better solution, I came across this question. I'm currently using a function to order by. It works fine for my purpose of sorting records which are named with mixed alpha numeric ('item 1', 'item 10', 'item 2', etc) <pre><code>CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fnMixSort] ( @ColValue NVARCHAR(255) ) RETURNS NVARCHAR(1000) AS BEGIN DECLARE @p1 NVARCHAR(255), @p2 NVARCHAR(255), @p3 NVARCHAR(255), @p4 NVARCHAR(255), @Index TINYINT IF @ColValue LIKE '[a-z]%' SELECT @Index = PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', @ColValue), @p1 = LEFT(CASE WHEN @Index = 0 THEN @ColValue ELSE LEFT(@ColValue, @Index - 1) END + REPLICATE(' ', 255), 255), @ColValue = CASE WHEN @Index = 0 THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(@ColValue, @Index, 255) END ELSE SELECT @p1 = REPLICATE(' ', 255) SELECT @Index = PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @ColValue) IF @Index = 0 SELECT @p2 = RIGHT(REPLICATE(' ', 255) + @ColValue, 255), @ColValue = '' ELSE SELECT @p2 = RIGHT(REPLICATE(' ', 255) + LEFT(@ColValue, @Index - 1), 255), @ColValue = SUBSTRING(@ColValue, @Index, 255) SELECT @Index = PATINDEX('%[0-9,a-z]%', @ColValue) IF @Index = 0 SELECT @p3 = REPLICATE(' ', 255) ELSE SELECT @p3 = LEFT(REPLICATE(' ', 255) + LEFT(@ColValue, @Index - 1), 255), @ColValue = SUBSTRING(@ColValue, @Index, 255) IF PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @ColValue) = 0 SELECT @p4 = RIGHT(REPLICATE(' ', 255) + @ColValue, 255) ELSE SELECT @p4 = LEFT(@ColValue + REPLICATE(' ', 255), 255) RETURN @p1 + @p2 + @p3 + @p4 END </code></pre> Then call <pre><code>select item_name from my_table order by fnMixSort(item_name) </code></pre> It easily triples the processing time for a simple data read, so it may not be the perfect solution.
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