Re: select a ranking

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i do some ordering on a table and need a ranking by points from a
> table with names and points (see sample code at the end of the mail)

[snip]

> so heres is my question:
> is there an easier way to create a ranking?

Yep, in the presentation tool. Pseudo-code is:

For each row in result
  print rownumber
  print contents of row

Why do you want to do this in SQL when it's clearly not the right place for
it?

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