Question

Given a table

 field1  |  field2

 abc     |  1
 efg     |  30
 etc     |  10

I would like to run a query like SELECT offset() FROM table WHERE field1 = 'etc' ORDER BY field2 DESC

Such an imaginary query should return 2 (ordering by field2 desc, field1 = etc is the second row)

Any clean way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you mean by row offset that: The rank of the row after ordering the results with order by field2 DESC which has field1 = 'etc', Then you could do something like:

SET @rowRank = 0; 
SELECT Sub.rowRank
FROM
(
    SELECT *, (@rowRank := @rowRank + 1) as rowRank
    FROM TableName
    ORDER BY field2 DESC
) AS Sub
WHERE Sub.field1 = 'etc'

This should return 2.