On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, mark <markkicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi > if i execute this statement: > > select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421, > 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849, ) > > the order of rows obtained is random. > > is there anyway i can get the rows in the same order as the ids in > subquery? or is there a different statement i can use? > thanks! Technically, that's just a list, not a subquery, but that's not important right now. You can use a case statement. select field1, field2, idfield from users where id in (1,4,3) order by case when idfield=1 then 1 when idfield=3 then 2 when idfield=4 then 3 end
