SQLite and custom order by

Question

I have a table with categories:

ID  Category
"1","Baking"   
"3","Family"   
"4","Entertaining"   
"5","Children"   
"6","Desserts"   

Now I would like to order the result of the select statement to

ID  Category
"4","Entertaining"   
"3","Family"  
"1","Baking"   
"5","Children"   
"6","Desserts"  

for example. In MySQL, you'd do it like this:

SELECT * FROM CATEGORIES ORDER BY FIELD (ID, 4,3,1,5,6);

How would you do it in SQLite though? I don't have an "order by" field.

Answer 1

ORDER BY 
  CASE ID
    WHEN 4 THEN 0
    WHEN 3 THEN 1
    WHEN 1 THEN 2
    WHEN 5 THEN 3
    WHEN 6 THEN 4
  END