At 3:16 PM -0800 10/31/01, Mike wrote:
>Okay, say I have a database with 10,000 entries in it. All entries
>have a unique id, but that ID is not exactly sequential (in fact,
>it's a 128-bit checksum).
>
>Now, given that ID, I need to find out what row # in the grand
>scheme that it is.
There's no such concept. Relational tables are sets, with no notion
of row number.
I'm curious what such a number would give you that the ID won't.
You certainly wouldn't be able to use it later to identify the record.
>
>Let's take this test statement:
>
>SELECT * FROM auction ORDER BY lotnum ASC
>
>Is there any way I can add something to that, that might return what
>row# a certain item is, using a WHERE condition?
You can use this trick, though perhaps it's not what you want:
SET @n = 0;
SELECT @n:=@n+1 AS rownum, auction.* FROM auction ORDER BY lotnum ASC;
Requires MySQL 3.23.6 or later.
>
>Mike
