order by two columns with same priority

Question

Hi ,

i have table , contain firstname and lastname ,

i used in my query :

ORDER BY FNAME,LNAME ASC ,

It display the records alphabetical order , and it works fine for Fname,

but it is not giving the same periority to LNAME,

my present table records :

No Fname Lname
1   Agh   Asd
2   Arh   AAA
3   Bcvc  Vvcv
4   Akasa Dvxvx

After my query:: ORDER BY FNAME,LNAME ASC ,

No Fname Lname
1   Agh   Asd
4   Akasa Dvxvx
2   Arh   AAA
3   Bcvc  Vvcv

But what How i want is

No Fname Lname
1   Agh   Asd
2   Arh   AAA
4   Akasa Dvxvx
3   Bcvc  Vvcv

Yes if i change the order by lname,fname asc , then i get the expected output,

But since query giveing the high priority to the first field in the order by ,

How to over ride this,

i want equal priority in my query ,

Any good suggestion

Answer 1

What is equal priority? What comes first: 'Aaa Zzz' or 'Zzz Aaa' and where comes 'Mmm Mmm' between the both?

Do you want to ORDER BY the first letters of both fname and lname, then by the second, etc.?

ORDER BY SUBSTRING(lname, 1, 1), SUBSTRING(fname, 1, 1), SUBSTRING(lname, 2, 1), SUBSTRING(fname, 2, 1)