in reply to Ranking position in a SQL index

It depends on what your dbms supports, but look at the ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses.

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Re^2: Ranking position in a SQL index
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2004 at 03:55 UTC
    I know those clauses but I can't see how they would help me get the numeric rank of a given row or value efficiently.
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