SQL: ORDER BY using a substring within a specific column… possible?

Question

I have a database whose columns are npID, title, URL, and issue.

Here is an example of two years\' entries:

npID               title               UR         


        

Answer 1

You could make the sub string part of the data being selected

SELECT npId, title, URL, issue, SUBSTRING(issue, 4) AS strsort FROM tbl ORDER BY strsort, issue