> -----Original Message----- > From: Joeri De Backer [mailto:fons...@gmail.com] > 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 > <m...@good-stuff.co.uk> 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 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
