in reply to Re: Re^3: What's an Efficient Way to Retrieve a Rank from a MySQL Table?
in thread What's an Efficient Way to Retrieve a Rank from a MySQL Table?

These scores:
student - score a - 70 b - 70 c - 70 d - 60 f - 60 e - 50
simply must lead to following ranking:
Students Rank: 1. a,b,c 4. d,f 6. e
Ranking the score-values is of little practical use.
As Abigail mentionned above: 50 is the 3rd Score (if you rank scores without considering their actual occurrence).
But student e with score 50 was last of 6.

pelagic