MySQL Select WHERE IN given order

Question

I have something like

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id IN (118,17,113,23,72);

If I just do this it returns the rows in ID ascending order. Is t

Answer 1

You can create a number to sort on based on the id values:

select *
from table
where id in (118,17,113,23,72)
order by
  case id
    when 118 then 1
    when 17 then 2
    when 133 then 3
    when 23 then 4
    when 72 then 5
  end