SQL ORDER BY months starting with this month

Question

I have a query that returns months 1-12. (INT)

Is there a way to order the results starting on this month desc?

Example

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1         


        

Answer 1

Much better in terms of execution cost:

Select * From
Group By monthcolumn,firstname,lastname 
ORDER BY DATEPART(YEAR,datecolumn) DESC, DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn) DESC

Or, this one is a little expensive in terms of execution cost:

Select * From
Group By monthcolumn ,firstname,lastname    
ORDER BY CASE WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=3 THEN 1
              WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=2 THEN 2
              WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=1 THEN 3
              WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=12 THEN 4
              WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=11 THEN 5
              WHEN (DATEPART(MONTH, datecolumn))=10 THEN 6
              ELSE 0 END  
              ASC