Weird Results on MySQL SELECT Statement with ORDER BY

I'm getting weird results on a MySQL SELECT statement that uses ORDER BY my_column ASC.

It's ordering the results the way a "computer" would order them, instead of a human:

• Item F: 241.565853
• Item B: 25.310854开发者_如何转开发
• Item D: 25.397155
• Item C: 260.252356
• Item A: 27.7740
• Item E: 271.774058

How do I get it to ORDER BY in the correct manner? My SELECT statement has a couple LEFT JOINS-- not sure if that would make a difference.

Any suggestions on how to correct this problem?

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Something like this should do it:

ORDER BY ABS(my_column) ASC

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The column you're ordering by is most likely a string-based (varchar, text, etc) datatype. You're seeing lexically-correct ordering for such a datatype. Change the column to use a numeric datatype, or (less-preferably, because why are you storing a numeric value as a string) cast the column to a numeric type and perform the sort on that cast.