How can I change this part of the query to have multiple words ordered first in sequence, then the rest of the results alphabetically?
ORDER BY CASE WHEN name LIKE '%Professional%' THEN 0 ELSE 1 END asc, name asc
So, it needs to be:
'%Professional%' 1 '%Leader%' 2 '%Advocate%' 3 '%Clinician%' 4 '%Educator%' 5 '%Scholar%' 6
Then all other results alphabetically.
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Answer
You can just expand your CASE expression with each of the desired words:
ORDER BY
CASE WHEN name LIKE '%Professional%' THEN 1
WHEN name LIKE '%Leader%' THEN 2
WHEN name LIKE '%Advocate%' THEN 3
WHEN name LIKE '%Clinician%' THEN 4
WHEN name LIKE '%Educator%' THEN 5
WHEN name LIKE '%Scholar%' THEN 6
ELSE 7
END,
name