Laravel orderBy not returning correct results

Question

My product model has range of products with values like 20.00 or 1000.00 however using Product::orderBy('price_1', 'desc')->take(10)->get(); the result does not show 1000.00 first it shows somewhere closer to the 20.00. Is this because of the . in the value or is there a better way to get the highest price first?

Answer 1

Change the type of the column to DECIMAL(6,2) (or any other precision).

The reason the fields are sorted like that is because it's a VARCHAR and varchars are sorted alphabetically, not by numeric value.