>I want to do a query of all employees from Maine, ordered by hiring date,
>and figure out where Joe falls in that list. (i.e. which record number
is he?)
If 'Joe' is a unique name LOL...
SELECT 1 + COUNT(*)
FROM employees
WHERE name <> 'Joe' AND state = 'MA' AND hiredate < <datevalue>;
PB
James Tu wrote:
Is there some quick way to do the following in MySQL? (I know I can
use PHP to search through the result set, but I wanted to see if
there's a quick way using some sort of query)
Let's say I know that Joe is from Maine.
I want to do a query of all employees from Maine, ordered by hiring
date, and figure out where Joe falls in that list. (i.e. which record
number is he?)
-James
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