MySQL Type Casting

Description

Example usage - if a field is a varchar and you need to sort by a number. It will sort it alpabetically, instead of numerically. Type casting will convert it to an altenative data type.

Snippet

SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = 'variable' ORDER BY CAST(id AS UNSIGNED INTEGER ) ASC

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