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

This answer applies to MySQL

==> lower than 8.0

SET @row_number = 0; 
SELECT 
    (@row_number:=@row_number + 1) AS num, 
    myColumn.first, 
    myColumn.second
FROM
    myTable
ORDER BY myColumn.first, myColumn.second   

source: http://www.mysqltutorial.org/mysql-row_number/

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==> greater than 8.0

Please see MySQL ROW_NUMBER() function manual as I did not test. But it seems this function is prefered.