Help needed in Sorting Columns (date sorts alphabetically)

Hi All,
I have a report query as follows:
select to_date(period,'MON-YYYY') start_date
,exp_type
,id
,acct_ref
,dept_ref
,item_date
,amt
from test;
I need to display the report in the same order as select statement (start_date,exp_type,id etc). I have given default sort order in report attributes and user enabled sort on all columns. The report attributes look as shown below:
column_name / sort / sort_seq
start_date / yes / 3
exp_type / yes / 1
id / yes / -
acct_ref / yes / -
dept_ref / yes / 2
item_date / yes / 4
Now my problem is that the start date sorts alphabetically (as varchar) instead of chronologically (date wise). How can I resolve this?
If I change my default sort order so that start_date is sorted 1st, it works perfectly fine. Is there any restriction for APEX sort that says the column displayed needs to be sorted in the same order? How do I overcome it? Or is it possible to overcome it?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sumana

Hi,
Thanks. But no I cannot change it to date, as there are many applications using it for displaying the period. But I found an equivalent date column for that period and tried using that. It was not working.
I did further analysis and found that even to_char(period) works fine. The problem was something else. In my region query the select statement was
select exp_type
,id
,amt
,to_date(period,'MON-YYYY')
from test.
I then had in region attributes used the arrows to change order of display, so that period appears first. That was the culprit. When I change my region query, to match the order in region attributes the date column as well as to_date(period) both work fine.
I never knew that the order of select statement and that in region attributes should match each other!!! And hence when posting I did not give importance to the order of my select list. Sorry for that.
The mystery is how was it working when i changed the sort order to say "period" 1st and then exp_type (2nd)
Thanks everyone for you help.
Thanks,
Sumana

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