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[nycphp-talk] OT: Random MySQL question

Jon Baer jonbaer at jonbaer.com
Wed Feb 14 17:14:47 EST 2007


Interesting how you can walk down the entire list to produce the  
order you need like that.

On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Flavio daCosta wrote:

> On 02/14/2007 03:37 PM, Jon Baer wrote:
>> Interesting question but this *would* seem to work ...
>>
>> select id, categories from dd_categories where id in (21, 20, 13,  
>> 3, 22,
>> 31) order by id = 21 desc;
>>
>> Anyone else test, confirm or answer why?
>
> id = 21 is evaluated to TRUE or FALSE and then sorted based on that.
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