Order by descending date - month, day and year

Question

This seems stupid but, I simply need a list of dates to be ordered with the most recent date at top. Using order by DESC doesn\'t seem to be working the way I w

Answer 1

Assuming that you have the power to make schema changes the only acceptable answer to this question IMO is to change the base data type to something more appropriate (e.g. date if SQL Server 2008).

Storing dates as mm/dd/yyyy strings is space inefficient, difficult to validate correctly and makes sorting and date calculations needlessly painful.