Order by day_of_week in MySQL

Question

How can I order the mysql result by varchar column that contains day of week name?

Note that MONDAY should goes first, not SUNDAY.

Answer 1

I'm thinking that short of redesigning the column to use an enum instead, there's not a lot to be done for it, apart from sorting the results after you've gotten them out.

Edit: A dirty hack is of course to add another table with id:weekday pairs and using joins or select in selects to fake an enum.