MySQL Sort Alphabetically but Ignore “The”

Question

I have MySQL database that has a table with book data in it. One of the columns in the table is called \"title\". Some of the titles begin the word \"the\" and some do not.<

Answer 1

if you are sure that you will NEVER EVER have a typo (and use lowercase instead of uppercase)

select *
from books b 
order by UPPER(LTRIM(Replace(b.Title, 'The', '')))

Otherwise your sorting will do all Upper and then all lower.

for example, this is ascending order:

Have a Great Day
Wild west
Zorro
aZtec fries are hotter
alfred goes shopping
bart is small
will i am not

adapted from AJP's answer