TSQL – Is it possible to define the sort order?

Question

It’s incredibly clunky, but you can use a CASE statement for ordering:

SELECT * FROM Blah 
ORDER BY CASE MyColumn 
    WHEN 'orange' THEN 1 
    WHEN 'apple' THEN 2 
    WHEN 'strawberry' THEN 3 
    END

Alternately, you can create a secondary table which contains the sort field and a sort order.

TargetValue  SortOrder
orange       1
apple        2
strawberry   3

And join your table onto this new table.