conditional order by clause in sql - sql

Question

I have a query that should order the result in asc or desc depending upon a column value.
e.g.
if employee of type manager exists THEN order by joining_date, bith_date ASC
else if employee is developer THEN order by joining_date, birth_date DESC.
I would like to achieve something like below, but can't achieve that.
ORDER BY CASE WHEN employee_type = 'm'
THEN joining_date, birth_date ASC;
WHEN employee_type = 'd'
THEN joining_date, birth_date DESC;

Answer 1

Well I got the answer after some research.
We can add multiple columns in where clause conditionally as follows :
ORDER BY DECODE(employee_type, 'm', joining_date, birth_date, salary) ASC,
DECODE(employee_type, 'd', joining_date, birth_date, salary) DESC
This will order the result on the basis of employee_type.

Answer 2

I suspect you want something like this:
ORDER BY
employee_type DESC -- first all the managers, then the developers
-- and in every one of these two groups
, joining_date -- first order by joining date
, CASE WHEN employee_type = 'm' -- and then either by
THEN birth_date -- birth date ascending for managers
ELSE NULL
END -- or
, birth_date DESC ; -- birth date descending for the rest (devs)

Answer 3

The question is a little bit poor specified.
order the result in asc or desc depending upon a column value.
A column takes many values (as there are multiple rows).
Now, order by clause use an expression and order rows upon it.
That expression should be morphotropic(;))
So, assuming stardard oracle's employee schema, managers are:
select *
from emp e
where exists (select emp_id from emp where e.id=emp.mgr_id)
An workaround query may be:
Select e.id, e.name, e.birth_date,
case
when (select count(*)
from emp e
where exists (select emp_id from emp where e.id=emp.mgr_id)
) --existence of manager
> 0 then birth_date - to_date('1-Jan-1000','dd-mon-yyyy')
else to_date('1-Jan-1000','dd-mon-yyyy') - birth_date
end as tricky_expression
from emp A
order by 4;
That exexpresion is the case; Using a constant(subquery that decides there are managers) it changes values from positive to negative, that is, change the order direction.
UPDATE: with the details in the comments:
select id, name, birth_date emp_type
from (
Select id, name, birth_date, emp_type,
case when cnt_mgr > 0 then birth_date - to_date('1-Jan-1000','dd-mon-yyyy')
else to_date('1-Jan-1000','dd-mon-yyyy') - birth_date
end as tricky_expression
from(
Select e.id, e.name, e.birth_date, emp_type,
count(case when emp_type='M' then 1 else 0 end) over() as mgr_count
from emp A
where your_conditions
)
order by tricky_expression
)
where rownum=1;

Answer 4

If there is a manager in the company this query returns the oldest manager, otherwise - the youngest developer.
select
id, name, birth_date, emp_type
from emp
where
id = (select
max(id) keep (dense_rank first order by
decode(emp_type, 'M', 1, 'D', 2),
joining_date,
decode(emp_type, 'M', 1, 'D', -1) * (birth_date - to_date('3000','yyyy')))
from emp)