Order by FIELD in MYSQL

Question

I am struggling to resolve this . I have a table like this .

    +-------------+-------+
    | type        | COUNT |
    +-------------+-------+
    | A              


        

Answer 1

how abt this:

select a.col as type,coalesce (`COUNT`,0) as `count`
from 
(select 'A' as col union all
select 'B' as col union all
select 'C' as col union all
select 'D' as col )a
left join Table1 T
on a.col=T.type
order by FIELD(a.col,'A','B','C','D') ; 

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