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Alpha numeric sorting in sql

708890Jun 25 2009 — edited Sep 16 2009
Please help me in sorting the following data of a column in ascending or descending order :

Data
0B001.c
0B001.c.1
0B001.c.10
0B001.c.11
0B001.c.11.a
0B001.c.11.b
0B001.c.11.c
0B001.c.11.d
0B001.c.12
0B001.c.13
0B001.c.2
0B001.c.3
0B001.c.3.a
0B001.c.3.b
0B001.c.3.c
0B001.c.4
0B001.c.5
0B001.c.6
0B001.c.6.a
0B001.c.6.b
0B001.c.6.c
0B001.c.7
0B001.c.7.a
0B001.c.7.b
0B001.c.7.c
0B001.c.8
0B001.c.8.a
0B001.c.8.b
0B001.c.8.c
0B001.c.9
0B001.d
0B001.d.1
0B001.d.2
0B001.d.3

expected order:
0B001.c
0B001.c.1
0B001.c.2
0B001.c.3
0B001.c.3.a
0B001.c.3.b
0B001.c.3.c
0B001.c.4
0B001.c.5
0B001.c.6
0B001.c.6.a
0B001.c.6.b
0B001.c.6.c
0B001.c.7
0B001.c.7.a
0B001.c.7.b
0B001.c.7.c
0B001.c.8
0B001.c.8.a
0B001.c.8.b
0B001.c.8.c
0B001.c.9
0B001.c.10
0B001.c.11
0B001.c.11.a
0B001.c.11.b
0B001.c.11.c
0B001.c.11.d
0B001.c.12
0B001.c.13
0B001.d
0B001.d.1
0B001.d.2
0B001.d.3

Thanks,
Chandra
This post has been answered by Frank Kulash on Jun 26 2009
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