MySQL get row position in ORDER BY

Question

With the following MySQL table:

+-----------------------------+
+ id INT UNSIGNED             +
+ name VARCHAR(100)           +
+----------------------------         


        

Answer 1

The other answers seem too complicated for me.

Here comes an easy example, let's say you have a table with columns:

userid | points

and you want to sort the userids by points and get the row position (the "ranking" of the user), then you use:

SET @row_number = 0;

SELECT 
    (@row_number:=@row_number + 1) AS num, userid, points
FROM
    ourtable
ORDER BY points DESC

num gives you the row postion (ranking).

If you have MySQL 8.0+ then you might want to use ROW_NUMBER()