Ok I this this is really simple. I am new to SQL. I am trying to use the order by to have jobs listed on a webpage. It works great but, when the company started out the owners came up with a job number scheme that used year and then a three digit number. Example: 85001 (YYJOB) The jobs sort great until 2000. 00701 appears before 85001. How can I sort the information excluding the first two digits.