Question

for example i have a table like this :

name   rating
matei     124
andrei     20
serj       25
john      190
mike       96
andy      245
tom        73

i need to output something like this(order by rating):

john’s position is 2; or, tom’s position is 5; (i don’t need to get all result , just one )

How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

SELECT  COUNT(*) + 1
FROM    users
WHERE   (rating, name) <
        (
        SELECT  rating, name
        FROM    users
        WHERE   name = 'john'
        )

Note that if you will have duplicates on both name and rating, this query will assign the same rating to both of them.