Can I get the position of a record in a SQL result table?

Question

If I do something like

SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY mycolumn ASC;

I get a result table in a specific order.

Is there a way in SQL

Answer 1

SQL doesn't work that way. It's set-based, which means that "position in that result table" is meaningless to the database.

You can keep track of position when you map the ResultSet into a collection of objects or when you iterate over it.