> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joeri De Backer [mailto:fonsken@stripped]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:16 AM
> To: mysql
> Subject: Re: Order by "in" clause
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Mark Goodge
> <mark@stripped> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a query like this:
> >
> > select id, title from product where id in (1,3,5,8,10)
> >
> > What I want it to do is return the rows in the order
> specified in the "in"
> > clause, so that this:
> >
> > select * from product where id in (10,3,8,5,1)
> >
> > will give me results in this order:
> >
> > +------+---------+
> > | id | title |
> > +------+---------+
> > | 10 | foo |
> > +------+---------+
> > | 3 | baz |
> > +------+---------+
> > | 8 | bar |
> > +------+---------+
> > | 5 | wibble |
> > +------+---------+
> > | 1 | flirble |
> > +------+---------+
> >
> > Is this possible? If so, how?
> >
>
> select * from product where id in (10,3,8,5,1) order by
> field(id,10,3,8,5,1)
>
> should do the trick...
>
> Regards,
>
> Joeri
...ya learn something new every day... ;-)
Here's more on this topic:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_field
