George, What I would do is include an auto_increment column in the table and order the select queries by that column. I don't know of a way of doing what you want with existing data.
John Lodge -----Original Message----- From: George Marnellos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:00 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Order by list? Hi all, I'm executing the follow very simple type of query to select entries from a list: "select entryid, entryinfo from mytable where entryid in ('id7', 'id4', 'id2', 'id5')" and, even though I don't specify any sorting order, MySQL sorts alphabetically by the field "entryid" (which happens to be an index), i.e. it returns +----------+-----------+ | entryid | entryinfo | +----------+-----------+ | id2 | ... | | id4 | ... | | id5 | ... | | id7 | ... | +----------+-----------+ I don't want this sorting order; I want the order to be that of the list. Is there a way to do this? It appears very simple but I cannot find how. Thanks for any comments or help, George --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
