Need a Sql Query its urgent Please Help me out

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I have data in a column in below manner
2013-Jan
2013-Oct
2012-Jan
2012-Oct
2012-April
2013-April

.......So on in the irrespective order prolong descending ten years.

I need a query which generates the output as below

2013-Oct
2013-April
2013-Jan
2012-Oct
2012-April
2012-Jan
.....
...... in descending manner.

Please Help me out

Thanks,
Vinay

Posted 8-Feb-13 18:30pm

vinayraju

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Feb-13 0:49am

What did you try?
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Feb-13 0:50am

Please stop commenting anything as "solution", this is the abuse. Comment on any existing post, reply on existing comments, use "Improve question".
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DaveAuld 9-Feb-13 1:46am

And what data format is the datatype in the column, I am assuming it is string(/nvarchar) rather than DateTime that has just been formatted.

Richard MacCutchan 9-Feb-13 5:20am

Are these columns text or dates? If they are proper DateTime types then you just order them in descending order.

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Volodymyr Bobko · Answer 1 · 2013-02-09T07:29:00

I think you need something like this:

SQL

declare @table table
(
    DateStr varchar(10)
)

insert into @table values('2013-Jan')
insert into @table values('2013-Oct')
insert into @table values('2012-Jan')
insert into @table values('2012-Oct')
insert into @table values('2012-April')
insert into @table values('2013-April')

select * from @table
order by CONVERT(date, DateStr+'-01') DESC