Re: "order by" days of the week

>>>>> "D" == D A <lameije@yahoo.com> writes:

    D> 2)Is there a way to store days of the week that is better than simply
    D> using varchar and performing a check. I read about the time data formats
    D> and they all seem to be more applicable to absolute times rather than
    D> simply a day of the week. I also thought about storing the days as a
    D> number between 1 and 7 then converting for display (1=Monday,
    D> 2=Tuesday...), but that didn't feel clean to me.

The was I've seen this done is to have an extra lookup table where
1=Monday does the translation between the key (the value 1) and the
human-readable version (the value "Monday").  I've not seen it for
this particular case (days of the week), but the idea is quite
general and works fine for this case.

roland
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