Question

I could use some assistance with this query.

Here’s my table:

id      name    point
1       yogi      5
2       sasi     10
3       white     5
4       black     8

My query is:

SELECT * FROM points ORDER BY point DESC

The result is:

id      name    point
 2      sasi      10
 4      black      8
 1      yogi       5
 3      white      5

But I’d like results like below. Please guide me.

id      name    point  rank
 2      sasi      10     1
 4      black      8     2
 1      yogi       5     3
 3      white      5     4

Is this possible to do?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

try this

SET @rank = 0;
SELECT *, @rank:=@rank+1 AS rank 
    FROM points ORDER BY point DESC

as a single line query like following

SELECT *, @rank:=@rank+1 AS rank 
   FROM points, (SELECT @rank:=0) temp
   ORDER BY point DESC