From: Daevid Vincent
Date: November 9 2010 8:52pm
Subject: RE: Order by "in" clause
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joeri De Backer [mailto:fonsken@stripped]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:16 AM
> To: mysql
> Subject: Re: Order by "in" clause
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> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Mark Goodge=20
> <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=20
> 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 =A0 | title =A0 |
> > +------+---------+
> > | =A010 =A0| =A0 =A0foo =A0|
> > +------+---------+
> > | =A0 3 =A0| =A0 =A0baz =A0|
> > +------+---------+
> > | =A0 8 =A0| =A0 =A0bar =A0|
> > +------+---------+
> > | =A0 5 =A0| wibble =A0|
> > +------+---------+
> > | =A0 1 =A0| flirble |
> > +------+---------+
> >
> > Is this possible? If so, how?
> >
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> select * from product where id in (10,3,8,5,1) order by=20
> field(id,10,3,8,5,1)
>=20
> should do the trick...
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> Regards,
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> 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=20
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_fie=
ld