> I thought about answering your original post except that I couldn't figure > out what you want. And after reading this, I'm even more confused. What > does it mean for id's to be sorted by last name?
Ok let me see if I can state thre problem better (though I think that I am begining to understand the magnatude of the task a little better from the answers by Adam and Ben), the problem may be that I don't have a real example only one that came to me as I was reading the section on indexes. Given: a table a table "names" with columns id - integer,primary key, auto_increment first - varchar(20) last - varchar(20) the entries have not been made in alphabetical order. But the table is indexed by last and first Problem: I know a row in the table, (I have an id,first and last). I guess what I would want to know is the next row if the table were sorted by last,first. What I was wondering was if mysql had a way to use the index for this, kind of like, if I know the primary key for a row is there anyway to get the primary key that is next in the index (since the index is kept sorted)? Or am I conceptualizing the index incorectly? SInce if I had the primary key writing a select statement is beginner stuff (and I am a beginner) Now Ben did simplify the problem correctly as well I think: - Run program, fetches a name. Processes and exits. - Run program again, same SQL but gets the NEXT name. Processes and exits. Thanks, Sam D --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
