SQL for ordering by number - 1,2,3,4 etc instead of 1,10,11,12

Question

I’m attempting to order by a number column in my database which has values 1-999

When I use

ORDER_BY registration_no ASC

I get….

Answer 1

This problem is just because you have declared the column in CHAR, VARCHAR or TEXT datatype. Just change the datatype to INT, BIGINT etc. This is will solved the problem of your custom ordering.