Sort by Calculated Values

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5:10 pm on Mar 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hello,

Right now I am sorting a table for a query by the contents in a column called "col1".

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY col1 DESC");

Instead, I would like to calculate a "score" to sort the table by.

Somehting where:
score = ((col1-2)*col2)+col3)

Is this possible?

Thanks

4:52 pm on Mar 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

You can do something like ('scuse syntax, I've not tested this):

mysql_query("SELECT ((col1-2)*col2)+col3) AS score, [..other fields..], FROM table ORDER BY score DESC");

6:47 pm on Mar 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

you can also sort by position:

SELECT ((col1-2)*col2)+col3) AS score, *
FROM table
ORDER BY 1 DESC

8:04 pm on Mar 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

At one point wasn't the column position syntax removed from the SQL standard?

9:23 pm on Mar 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thank you very much, the code worked and helped me emmensly with my script.

Thanks