Weird Sort Question

[Rob]

I want to be able to create a select statement that will return a column of
six digit numbers in reverse order but grouped by two. For example,

111345
234567
245677


would become

451311
674523
775612

I need to be able to do this in both ascending and decending order. I'm running
against an Oracle 8i database.

Thanks !

Rob

[Rohit Wason]

Rob,

I have applied some basic mathematical operations (like divide, modulo and
integral-divide):

(123456 mod 100) & (123456 \ 100) mod 100 & 123456 \ 10000

will give me (in VB):

563412 (is that what u wanted?)

Convert this algorithm to whatever language you choose - Oracle/SQL Server.

HTH,
Cheers
Rohit




"Rob" <robertofor@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I want to be able to create a select statement that will return a column
of
>six digit numbers in reverse order but grouped by two. For example,
>
>111345
>234567
>245677
>
>
>would become
>
>451311
>674523
>775612
>
>I need to be able to do this in both ascending and decending order. I'm
running
>against an Oracle 8i database.
>
>Thanks !
>
>Rob
>
>
>
>

[psit]

Hi, all
That's a good idea Rohit, and I have another way by use SUBSTR function
as I show below :

1 select mod(123456,100) ||

2 mod(trunc(123456/100,0),100) ||

3 trunc(123456/10000,0) asMath,

4 substr(ltrim(to_char(123456,'999999')),5,2) ||

5 substr(ltrim(to_char(123456,'999999')),3,2) ||

6 substr(ltrim(to_char(123456,'999999')),1,2) asString

7* from dual

The first part is doing by Rohit's way, and the second is use SUBSTR function.

Psit

"Rohit Wason" <rohitw@ggn.hcltech.com> wrote:
>
>Rob,
>
>I have applied some basic mathematical operations (like divide, modulo and
>integral-divide):
>
>(123456 mod 100) & (123456 \ 100) mod 100 & 123456 \ 10000
>
>will give me (in VB):
>
>563412 (is that what u wanted?)
>
>Convert this algorithm to whatever language you choose - Oracle/SQL Server.
>
>HTH,
>Cheers
>Rohit
>
>
>
>
>"Rob" <robertofor@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>I want to be able to create a select statement that will return a column
>of
>>six digit numbers in reverse order but grouped by two. For example,
>>
>>111345
>>234567
>>245677
>>
>>
>>would become
>>
>>451311
>>674523
>>775612
>>
>>I need to be able to do this in both ascending and decending order. I'm
>running
>>against an Oracle 8i database.
>>
>>Thanks !
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>