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ROW_NUMBER() in MySQL

Is this possible? I want to get a bunch of results in a specific order and then find out the position of a row by its id, for example:

1, foo
2, bar
3, foobar

I want to get the position of 1 in Alphabetical order, it would return 2

Answer 1

SELECT id, name, rank FROM 
    (
    SELECT t.id, t.name,
        @rownum := @rownum + 1 AS rank
    FROM TABLE t, (SELECT @rownum := 0) r
    ORDER BY name ASC
    ) `selection` WHERE id=1

Modified from this answer >> ROW_NUMBER() in MySQL