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Help: Alpha Order Table Based On Other Table?

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Mar 17.2004

I have one db table “equipment” with a field called “equipManu”. This field is populated with an id# from another table call “manufacturers.” The issue is when I want to sort the equipment table by manufacturer. When I ORDER BY equipManu, it orders by the ID number that populates that field and not the manufacturer name that the ID# is associated with. Is there a way it can order alpha by the manufacturer NAME from that other table? I bet this is an easy solution…

equipment
————

equipID(int)
equipManu <– Uses manuID from manufacturers
…

manufacturers
—————-

manuID(int)
manuName <– Want to alpha order by this value
…

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@crh3675Mar 17.2004 — you need to change your query:

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select equipment.*, manufacturers.manuName from equipment
inner join manufacturers on manufacturers.id=equipment.equipManu
order by manufacturers.manuName;
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@msmith29063authorMar 17.2004 — Works like a charm. Thank you for your help.
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@crh3675Mar 17.2004 — You're welcome
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