On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 oops, that should be when idfield=1 then 1 when idfield=4 then 2 when idfield=3 then 3
