Ordering by the order of values in a SQL IN() clause

Question

I am wondering if there is away (possibly a better way) to order by the order of the values in an IN() clause.

The problem is that I have 2 queries, one that gets al

Answer 1

For Oracle, John's solution using instr() function works. Here's slightly different solution that worked - SELECT id FROM table1 WHERE id IN (1, 20, 45, 60) ORDER BY instr('1, 20, 45, 60', id)