SQL Server: How to order by date, if the date is < GetDate()

Question

Here's an interesting one... hope I can explain it well...

I have a collection of competitions in a single table in my SQL Server DB. I'm doing a full text search over them, which works fine. However, some of the competitions are closed, and I want these closed comps to show up after the open comps, while still respecting the rank we get from full text search.

So if I had an IsOpen bit feild, I would them ordered by

ORDER BY IsOpen DESC, KEY_TBL.Rank DESC

Now the problem is I don't have an IsOpen bit field. Instead, I have a ClosedDate field, which is a datetime.

So What I really need to do is something like:

ORDER BY (ClosingDate < GetDate()) ASC, KEY_TBL.Rank DESC

Anyone know how to do this?

Any ideas would be great! Thanks in advance.

-Ev

Answer 1

ORDER BY
  CASE
    WHEN (ClosingDate < GetDate())
    THEN 1
    ELSE 0
  END ASC,
  KEY_TBL.Rank DESC

Answer 2

add (ClosingDate < GetDate()) to the SELECTed fields and order by that field

select ... , add (ClosingDate < GetDate()) as Foo
from ...
where ...
order by foo

possibly add (ClosingDate < GetDate()) will not be accepted, then you will have to use IF(add (ClosingDate < GetDate());1;0)

I don't know the syntax of that IF function by heart, look it up!