Question

I need to give the rank in mysql table , suppose there is table name test with marks 45,55,55,65,75 then 75 should have rank 1 and so on

original table

name  marks
tom   55
joe   56
sally 57

result needed

name  marks rank
tom   55     3
joe   56     2 
sally 57     1 

Answer 1

You would need to order the users by marks and then count their position. This can be done in the following way:

SET @rownum := 0;

SELECT @rownum := @rownum+1 AS rank, name, marks
FROM your_table 
ORDER BY marks DESC

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