Hello,

the 'order by' clause just order my results by ascending value, but don't keep 
the order I gave in the 'IN(...)' clause..

So it doesn't solve my problem.

Mickael


On Friday 22 March 2002 12:08, Jayasimhan A wrote:
> Try "order by id".
> All the best,
> Jayasimhan A
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> From: Mickael Bailly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM
> Subject: keeping given order in resulset
>
> > Hello !
> >
> >  I got a table having an auto_increment field, let's say 'id'. tis table
>
> has a
>
> > varchar field too, let's say 'name'.
> >
> > Is there a way to do something like:
> >
> > select id, name from table where id in (5,3,7)
> >
> > AND that mysql orders the results the way I gave into the 'IN(...)'
> > clause
>
> ?
>
> > So I would have resultset like:
> > |  id  |  name  |
> > |   5  |  'foo'   |
> > |   3  |  'bar'  |
> > |   7  |  'foobar'  |
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mickael
> >
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