MySQL get row position in ORDER BY
Use this:
SELECT x.id, x.position, x.name FROM (SELECT t.id, t.name, @rownum := @rownum + 1 AS position FROM TABLE t JOIN (SELECT @rownum := 0) r ORDER BY t.name) x WHERE x.name = 'Beta'
...to get a unique position value. This:
SELECT t.id, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TABLE x WHERE x.name <= t.name) AS position, t.name FROM TABLE t WHERE t.name = 'Beta'
...will give ties the same value. IE: If there are two values at second place, they'll both have a position of 2 when the first query will give a position of 2 to one of them, and 3 to the other...
This is the only way that I can think of:
SELECT `id`, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `table` WHERE `name` <= 'Beta') AS `position`, `name`FROM `table`WHERE `name` = 'Beta'
If the query is simple and the size of returned result set is potentially large, then you may try to split it into two queries.
The first query with a narrow-down filtering criteria just to retrieve data of that row, and the second query uses COUNT
with WHERE
clause to calculate the position.
For example in your case
Query 1:
SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name = 'Beta'
Query 2:
SELECT COUNT(1) FROM tbl WHERE name >= 'Beta'
We use this approach in a table with 2M record and this is way more scalable than OMG Ponies's approach.