MySQL - ORDER BY values within IN()

Question

I\'m hoping to sort the items returned in the following query by the order they\'re entered into the IN() function.

INPUT:

SELECT id         


        

Answer 1

Another option from here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html

select * 
from tablename 
order by priority='High' DESC, priority='Medium' DESC, priority='Low" DESC;

So in your case (untested) would be

SELECT id, name
FROM mytable
WHERE name IN ('B', 'A', 'D', 'E', 'C')
ORDER BY name = 'B', name = 'A', name = 'D', name =  'E', name = 'C';

Depending what you're doing I've found it a bit quirky but always got it to work after playing with it a bit.