SQL Server equivalent to Oracle's NULLS FIRST?

Question

So Oracle has NULLS FIRST, which I can use to have null values sorted at the top followed by my column value in descending order:

ORDER BY date_sent NULLS FI         


        

Answer 1

A simple example:

SELECT (CASE WHEN Value1 IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS ValueIsNull, Value1, Value2, Value3
FROM TableName
ORDER BY ValueIsNull DESC, Value1