>Hi Experts,
>
>Is it possible to obtain one's ranking without the need to maintain a rank field?
>
>For example, if we have a Grades table:
>
>Student GenAve
>Marc 98%
>Steve 89%
>Jeff 90%
>Adrian 92%
>Dennis 80%
>
>I would then like to do a:
>
>

>SELECT Student, GenAve, SomeRankFunction() as Rank FROM Grades ORDER BY Rank
>

>
>I guess the above should be MySQL syntax since my backend is MySQL.
>
>Thanks
>Dennis

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I found this http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?97,162926,163937#msg-163937, may be it's not easy in MySQL.