make zero appear last in a list of ascending numbers

Question

I\'m using SQLite in an Android application.
In all of my tables I have a default row with an index of 0 that holds default values for that table.
In most situations

Answer 1

Can you add an extra column to act as a filter, then sort by both columns?

select (...)epoch_date.epoch, case epoch_date.epoch when 0 then 1 else 0 as default
(...)
order by default,epoch_date.epoch

Answer 2

Equivalent to the CASE statement suggestion, but shorter:

 ORDER BY epoch_date.epoch == 0, epoch_date.epoch

Answer 3

I'm not completely sure if SQLite allows case statements in "order by", but try something along these lines:

order by case epoch_date.epoch when 0 then 999999 else epoch_date.epoch end

Answer 4

Try this:

ORDER BY
    CASE epoch_date.epoch WHEN 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END,
    epoch_date.epoch

I haven't tested in SQLite but works in many other databases so hopefully it should work in SQLite too.

Answer 5

order by decode(epoch_date.epoch,0,null,epoch_date.epoch)

you can use something like this..since nulls are kept in the end in case of ascending order. provided you have decode function available in sqlite..or else you can just use a case statement instead.

Ravi Kumar