Thanks Peter,
That looks pretty good to me. I never would have figured that out on
my own.
Dan T
On Jun 1, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Peter Brawley wrote:
> 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
>
> -----
>
> 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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