alphanumeric and special character sorting

Posted by Kaushik Gopal on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Kaushik Gopal
Published on 2010-05-06T08:54:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 8:58 UTC
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Hi ppl,

I wanted to know the different standards of sorting. To be more specific take the sample set:

(Please note there's capitals, small letters, special characters, null values and numbers here)

A
a
3F
Zx
-
1Ad
NULL

How would the Oracle Database sort this by default?

How would LINQ sort this by default?

How would db2 sort this by default?

(the following may get even more vague)

How does the Windows platform sort this? (I mean say you have a couple of filenames, by default how would this get treated in a name sort)

How does the *nix platform sort this?

Is there some sort of standard for alphanumeric/special character sorting? The Windows operating system orders with numbers first, then alphabets. The Oracle database however treats alphabets first. I'm not sure of the *nix platform.

It would be nice to have one place to know all these rules for the most common platforms (listed in questions above). Would the gurus throw some light on this topic?

Cheers, K

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