Getting PHP MYSQL ranking query to rank based on total sum of score

Question

CREATE TABLE `players` (
 `pid` int(2) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`score` int(2) NOT NULL,
`game` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`pid         


        

Answer 1

You want to use a group by statement rather than a subselect to solve this particular type of problem.