Dan,
>I want to get a particular users 'rank' or row number from the query.
SELECT 1+COUNT(*) AS Rank
FROM results r1
INNER JOIN results r2 ON r1.points<r2.points
WHERE r1.user='Steve';
PB
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Dan wrote:
> I have a regular query lets say:
>
> SELECT user, points FROM results ORDER BY points DESC
>
> so I get:
>
> user points
> ---------------
> john 23
> steve 17
> bill 14
>
> From this I want to get a particular users 'rank' or row number from
> the query. I was hoping for a single line elegant query for this.
>
> I thought of this:
>
> SET @i = O;
> SELECT @i:= @i + 1 as row, SUM(IF(user = 'steve',@i,0)) as rank, user
> FROM points ORDER BY points DESC GROUP BY id;
>
> but I get:
>
> rank user
> ---------------
> 0 john
> 2 steve
> 0 bill
>
> which does not really help me
>
> Any ideas? I tried the manual, Google and the list with no sucsess.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan T
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