MySQL get rows but prefer one column value over another

Question

A bit of a strange one, I want to write a MySQL query that will get results from a table, but prefer one value of a column over another, ie

id   name    value            


        

Answer 1

Maybe something like:

SELECT id, name, value, priority FROM 
table_name GROUP BY name ORDER BY priority

Although not having a database in front of me I can't test it...