Dynamic orderby clause for multiple columns with out Dynamic query

Question

Hi,
        I've a query like
"select  * from tablename order by column1,column2,column3,column4,column5,column6"
in the above query the order by column will be dynamically changed. The query is placed in a stored procedures and the order by column will come by parameter.
   For ex: @orderbycol = column2,column1,column3,column4,column5,column6
                                     or
                @orderbycol = column3,column2,column1,column4,column5,coumn6
How can we manage the order by clause as dynamically without go to dynamic query.

Answer 1

ORDER BY CASE @sortcol1
             WHEN 'col1' THEN col1
             WHEN 'col2' THEN col2
         END,
         CASE @sortcol2
             WHEN 'col1' THEN col1
             WHEN 'col2' THEN col2
         END,
Note: these CASE expressions assumes that all columns have the same data type.
You could consider sorting in the presentation layer instead.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]