From: Peter Brawley
Date: June 1 2006 10:06pm
Subject: Re: Help with query: Row number / Rank from a query...
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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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