Right now I'm trying to use PHP to do a binary search on the result set so I don't have to traverse the entire result set.

I'm using PHP's mysql_data_seek() to move the pointer within the result set and looking at the data.

What do people think of this approach?

-James


On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:21 AM, 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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