Question

I have made a website for a ‘walking challenge’, which has a table that logs miles walked.

The target is 2105 miles (Newcastle, UK to Istanbul).

On the home page i have a leaderboard which currently shows the 5 teams who have racked up the most miles.

I am using the following query to achive this:

SELECT 
    SUM(log.distance) AS l, 
    log.*, 
    team.*
FROM 
    team
RIGHT JOIN 
    log ON team.teamname = log.teamname                             
GROUP BY 
    log.teamname
ORDER BY 
    l DESC

However i want this leaderboard to show the 5 teams that finished first rather than who have walked the furthest. ie, the teams who reached 2105 miles first.

The current website can be viewed here

Answer 1

Add a nullable completedDate field to the table and populate it whenever someone completes the race. Order by the completed date.

There’d be no way to order by who finished first otherwise.