Sorting an E-mail column on Domain name
I have a 20,000+ Goldmine Database. I would like to sort the database by e-mail addresses. Not by what is before...
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the "@" symbol. I want to sort by what's after the @symbol, i.e., @foo.com, @foobar.net... Can you give me a clue?
Here's the approach, illustrated with standard SQL. Use the POSITION string function to find the "@" in the e-mail address, and the SUBSTRING and LENGTH functions to pull out the rest of the string:
select emailaddress , substring ( emailaddress from position('@' in emailaddress) + 1 for length(emailaddress) - position('@' in emailaddress) ) as domainname from goldminetable order by domainname
I'm not familiar with the Goldmine database, so maybe it has its own non-standard syntax. For example, in Microsoft Access you have to say:
select emailaddress , mid ( emailaddress , instr(emailaddress,'@') + 1 , len(emailaddress) - instr(emailaddress,'@') ) as domainname from goldminetable order by mid ( emailaddress , instr(emailaddress,'@') + 1 , len(emailaddress) - instr(emailaddress,'@') )
Some databases may not let you use the column alias "domainname" in the ORDER BY clause, so just repeat the function expression.
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