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      <title>(MySQL) Find off days in a date range using mysql - aamirrajpoot</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/56577/find-off-days-in-a-date-range-using-mysql</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A function to get off days inside mySQL&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:12:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>(MySQL) Order By rand() Reduce Time - aamirrajpoot</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/46879/order-by-rand-reduce-time</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A guy asked me to reduce the query execution time. He is getting 10 results but the query had joins which makes it time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:25:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>(MySQL) Alpha Numeric Sorting in MySQL - aamirrajpoot</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/41275/alpha-numeric-sorting-in-mysql</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Okay,&#13;
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If it is required to sort columns like this&#13;
&#13;
1A&#13;
1a&#13;
10A&#13;
9B&#13;
21C&#13;
1C&#13;
1D&#13;
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And Our desired Result is&#13;
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1A&#13;
1C&#13;
1D&#13;
1a&#13;
9B&#13;
10A&#13;
21C&#13;
&#13;
We can use casting, but casting will not sort 1A, 1B,1C properly. To overcome this issue we are  first converting this column to binary and sorting the binary combined with tbl_column.&#13;
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hehe,,, after doing some headbanging just did it with casting too... and using same logic... damn why I didnt thought of that.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:53:53 UTC</pubDate>
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