Comments on: ColdFusion Query of Queries Order By Case Sensitivity Fun http://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/ My ideas on the web and mobile application/game technologies Sat, 27 Jun 2015 02:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Terranhttp://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/#comment-126986 Terran Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:19:39 +0000 http://renaun.com/blog/?p=66#comment-126986 Thanks – I’d been fighting with that for an hour before I found your blog post, and that solved the problem perfectly!

]]> By: Brianhttp://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/#comment-3970 Brian Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:02:40 +0000 http://renaun.com/blog/?p=66#comment-3970 Be careful – depending on your data, using upper/lower may throw errors as part of these issues: http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes/

]]> By: Renaun Ericksonhttp://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/#comment-2447 Renaun Erickson Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:03:53 +0000 http://renaun.com/blog/?p=66#comment-2447 Thanks,

Thats exactly what I tried first and it failed for me (using ColdFusion MX 7.0.2), that left me with the solution above.

]]> By: Scott Strozhttp://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/#comment-2446 Scott Stroz Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:00:57 +0000 http://renaun.com/blog/?p=66#comment-2446 Did you try

SELECT Name
FROM myList
WHERE type = ‘Dir’
ORDER BY UPPER(Name)

]]> By: Renaun Ericksonhttp://renaun.com/blog/2006/07/coldfusion-query-of-queries-order-by-case-sensitivity-fun/#comment-2423 Renaun Erickson Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:58:58 +0000 http://renaun.com/blog/?p=66#comment-2423 Its because the query is coming from which does not have a case insensitive sort mechanism. The underlying OS file system treats the files/directories different and thus sorts them by default differently.

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