MySQL ORDER BY with custom field value

To set custom field value, use FIND_IN_SET(). Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable677(    UserId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,    UserStatus text ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.07 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable677(UserStatus) values('BUSY'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.23 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable677(UserStatus) values('AT WORK'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable677(UserStatus) values('OFFLINE'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.18 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable677(UserStatus) values('BLOCKED'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable677;

This will produce the following output −

+--------+------------+ | UserId | UserStatus | +--------+------------+ |      1 | BUSY       | |      2 | AT WORK    | |      3 | OFFLINE    | |      4 | BLOCKED    | +--------+------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to ORDER BY with custom field value −

mysql> select *from DemoTable677 ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(UserStatus, 'BLOCKED,AT WORK,OFFLINE,BUSY');

This will produce the following output −

+--------+------------+ | UserId | UserStatus | +--------+------------+ | 4 | BLOCKED | | 2 | AT WORK | | 3 | OFFLINE | | 1 | BUSY | +--------+------------+ 4 rows in set (0.03 sec)