I have no problem doing this with server variables ... here is an example that
I tried on the acc (account) table in our db ...
SET @a:=0;
SELECT @a:=@a+1 AS MyRowNum, acc.* FROM acc;
This gives me the result that you are looking for ...
Eric
Peter Holm wrote:
> Hi,
> how do I get something like ROWNUM with mysql?
>
> This means, before every row in a result there would be the Number of
> the row. I want a result that looks like this:
>
> No | xyz | abc |
> -------------------------------
> 1| xyz | abc |
> 2| xyz | abc |
> 3| xyz | abc |
> .
> .
> .
> 10| xyz | abc |
>
> I tried to use variables (@a++) for this, but this does not work.
> Is there a way to do this (without a procedural language... I know it is
> easy to do with perl or php, but I am using mysql commandline utility a
> lot for formatting of results...)
>
> THANKS for answers!
>
>
>
> Have a nice thread,
> Peter
>
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