mysql order by, null first, and DESC after

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Ervin picture Ervin · Feb 16, 2012 · Viewed 45.1k times · Source

How can I order DESC by a field, but list the NULL values first?

So I'm having a table:

reuestId | offerId | offerTitle
1        | 1       | Alfa
NULL     | 2       | Beta
2        | 3       | Gamma

I want to select them so that the results would be:

NULL | 2 | Beta
2    | 3 | Gamma
1    | 1 | Alfa

Answer

DonCallisto picture DonCallisto · Feb 16, 2012

Try this: 

ORDER BY [reuestId] IS NULL DESC, [reuestId] DESC

should work (for mySql)

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