I'm trying to make a query that will number it's own output rows. e.g. when
listing all the entries in a table that are related to a specific invoice,
there will be a column with a monotonically increasing integer value (1-x
where x is the number of matching entries).
I know I can easily do this with PHP after the query is generated, but I have
a generic function to create a pulldown menu selection that will work easily
if I can just get that counter column in there...
I've tried:
select tableName.*, 1 as inc, sum( inc ) from tableName;
But sum() will only accept a table column, not a display column... I have the
Widenius MySQL book, but I haven't found anything useful in there.
If anyone has an idea, I'd appreciate it...
-Michael
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