It's not a bug at all. You just hit one of the features of enum :)
If you want to order alphabetically as you describe cast the enum name
to a string like this
select col from t order by concat(my_enum);
-Eric
Daevid Vincent wrote:
>Please tell me there is a way to fix this "bug" in mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib
>4.0.18, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)
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>I have a column defined like so:
>Type
>enum('Schedule','Report','Admin','Search','General','License','Access')
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>If I SELECT, and ORDER BY Type, it is ordering in the order defined by the
>the ENUM, not _alphabetically_ as a sane person would expect. UGH!
>
>Please tell me there is a fix or work around.
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