Question

I have a table that holds usernames and results.
When a user insert his results to the DB, I want to execute a query that will return
the top X results ( with their rank in the db) and will also get that user result
and his rank in the DB.
the result should be like this:

1 playername 4500

2 otherplayer 4100

3 anotherone 3900
…

134 current player 140

I have tried a query with union, but then I didnt get the current player rank.
ideas anyone?

The DB is MYSQL.

10x alot and have agreat weekend 🙂

EDIT

This is what I have tried:

(select substr(first_name,1,10) as first_name, result
FROM top_scores ts
WHERE result_date >= NOW() – INTERVAL 1 DAY
LIMIT 10)
union
(select substr(first_name,1,10) as first_name, result
FROM top_scores ts
where first_name=’XXX’ and result=3030);

Answer 1

SET X = 0;

SELECT @X:=@X+1 AS rank, username, result
FROM myTable
ORDER BY result DESC
LIMIT 10;

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Re your comment:

How about this:

SET X = 0;

SELECT ranked.* 
FROM (
    SELECT @X:=@X+1 AS rank, username, result
    FROM myTable
    ORDER BY result DESC
) AS ranked
WHERE ranked.rank <= 10 OR username = 'current';