ORDER BY “ENUM field” in MYSQL

Question

There is a field \'noticeBy\' enum(\'email\',\'mobile\',\'all\',\'auto\',\'nothing\') NOT NULL DEFAULT \'auto\'. As it known ordering by ENUM field performs relative to its

Answer 1

You can define your order however you wish:

ORDER BY CASE noticeBy
           WHEN 'email' THEN 1
           WHEN 'mobile' THEN 2
           WHEN 'all' THEN 3
           WHEN 'auto' THEN 4
           ELSE 5
         END

This will return the rows in the following order: email, mobile, all, auto, nothing.