Reg:Getting vaues from DB with out sorting

[kirans reddy]

Hi,
I need to get data from Employee table like

select * from Employee where id in(8,7,5,9,1);

It is fetching data like

1
5
7
8
9
But i need like
8
7
5
9
1

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

You have a few choices:
1) Do the queries one at a time
2) Do the "sort" in your desired order after getting back from the database if using JDBC
3) Sort in Oracle. I think you can define a custom function (which returns your desired order) and sort by that. (I did it in a different database, but I think Oracle supports it too.)