On 10-Feb-2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, I'll just get straight to the problem (simplified): > > Say I have the following table/columns: > ID, Score, Rank > 1, 20, 0 > 2, 50, 0 > 3, 10, 0 > 4, 5, 0 > 5, 97, 0 > > Is it possible, in a single query (using sub-queries if necessary), > to give > all of these "ID's" the correct rank... ie if such a thing existed it > might
<snip> SET @r:=0; SELECT ID, score, (@r:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) AS rank FROM teams ORDER BY score DESC, ID; +------+-------+------+ | ID | score | rank | +------+-------+------+ | 5 | 97 | 1 | | 2 | 50 | 2 | | 1 | 20 | 3 | | 3 | 10 | 4 | | 4 | 5 | 5 | +------+-------+------+ <snip> > I can't seem to find any obvious nice way of doing this, other than > the poor > method of looping/iterating through with an "Ordered" select, and > then > sending individual "UPDATES" for each Hint: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
