Counting Row

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hi postgre people. Can anybody help to fix performance of my query?</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Let say, I have <b><span style="font-weight:bold">n</span></b> number of queue ticket. (Which I use
SELECT).</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">Is there faster method to know where is my ticket number in queue?</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I use (while in PHP script ) and  count one by one until my ticket number match with row  field
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">$sql="select * from [MYTABLE] where [CONDITION] order by [FIELDORDER];</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">$rs=&$ctclink->Execute($sql);</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">$ctr=1;</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">$pos=0;</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">   </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">   while (!$rs->EOF) {</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">      if ($rs->fields[0]==$recid) {</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">        $pos=$ctr;</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">        break;</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">      } else {</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">      $ctr++;</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">      $rs->MoveNext();  }</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">    }</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">   print $pos</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">is there any method to do that with simple??</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Broadway BT" size="3"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Broadway BT";font-weight:bold">Thanks,</span></font></b><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New
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