MySQL rownum equivalent

SQL posted over 5 years ago by christian

MySQL doesn’t have rownum, but user variables can be used as a replacement:

   1  select @rownum:=@rownum+1 'rank', p.* from products p, (SELECT @rownum:=0) r order by created_at desc limit 10;

Read more: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual

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