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I have a query that UNION 's two somewhat similar datasets, but they both have some columns that are not present in the other (i.e., the columns have NULL values in the resulting UNION .) The problem is, I need to ORDER the resulting data using those columns that only exist in one or the other set, to get the data in a friendly format for the software-side. For example: Table1 has fields ID, Cat, Price . Table2 has fields ID, Name, Abbrv . The ID field is common between the two tables. My query looks like something like this: SELECT t1.ID, t1.Cat, t1.Price, NULL as Name, NULL as Abbrv FROM t1 UNION SELECT t2.ID, NULL as Cat, NULL as Price, t2.Name, t2.Abbrv FROM t2 ORDER BY Price DESC, Abbrv ASC The ORDER BY is where I'm stuck. The data looks like this: 100 Balls 1.53 200 Bubbles 1.24 100 RedBall 101RB 100 BlueBall 102BB 200 RedWand 201RW 200 BlueWand 202BW ...but I want it to look like this: 100 Balls 1.53 100 RedBall 101RB 100 BlueBall 102BB 200 Bubbles 1.24 200 RedWand 201RW 200 BlueWand 202BW I'm hoping this can be done in T-SQL.

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