Quick and simple way to order a set of meetings by day of week

[John Meyer]

Okay, I have a database listing various meetings. The meetings have a
day of the week and a time (Say Sunday at 8:00). Now, given a set of
these meetings, how would I order them so that they would go Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. note these meetings don't
have dates, just day of week and time. Oh, and they're coming from a
MySQL database.

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Re: Quick and simple way to order a set of meetings by day of week

John Meyer wrote:[color=blue]
> MySQL database.[/color]

Please bring a little bit of life to comp.databases. mysql

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E. Dronkert

[Mara Guida]

Re: Quick and simple way to order a set of meetings by day of week

John Meyer wrote:[color=blue]
> Okay, I have a database listing various meetings. The meetings have a
> day of the week and a time (Say Sunday at 8:00). Now, given a set of
> these meetings, how would I order them so that they would go Sunday,
> Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. note these meetings don't
> have dates, just day of week and time. Oh, and they're coming from a
> MySQL database.[/color]


create table daysofweek (weekdaynumber int, weekdayname varchar(9));
insert daysofweek values (0, 'Monday');
insert daysofweek values (1, 'Tuesday');
insert daysofweek values (2, 'Wednesday');
insert daysofweek values (3, 'Thursday');
insert daysofweek values (4, 'Friday');
insert daysofweek values (5, 'Saturday');
insert daysofweek values (6, 'Sunday');

Now link your tables together with daysofweek and ORDER BY
weekdaynumber.

If you want the week to start on Wednesdays
select ... order by ((weekdaynumber + 5) % 7)

[John Meyer]

Re: Quick and simple way to order a set of meetings by day of week

Mara Guida wrote:[color=blue]
> John Meyer wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Okay, I have a database listing various meetings. The meetings have a
>>day of the week and a time (Say Sunday at 8:00). Now, given a set of
>>these meetings, how would I order them so that they would go Sunday,
>>Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. note these meetings don't
>>have dates, just day of week and time. Oh, and they're coming from a
>>MySQL database.[/color]
>
>
>
> create table daysofweek (weekdaynumber int, weekdayname varchar(9));
> insert daysofweek values (0, 'Monday');
> insert daysofweek values (1, 'Tuesday');
> insert daysofweek values (2, 'Wednesday');
> insert daysofweek values (3, 'Thursday');
> insert daysofweek values (4, 'Friday');
> insert daysofweek values (5, 'Saturday');
> insert daysofweek values (6, 'Sunday');
>
> Now link your tables together with daysofweek and ORDER BY
> weekdaynumber.[/color]

Thanks for pointing out an obvious and simple solution.