How do you access a table where the name of the field to be used in the
ORDER BY clause is a variable ?
(we are using SQLCobol)

          EXEC SQL                       

               DECLARE my-cursor CURSOR FOR   

               SELECT *                  

               FROM my-table 

               ORDER BY :my-order-by-field        




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