SQL query for determining a ranking list08
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Today I came across the following task while working on a customer project: Take a SQL table "user" with the columns "id" and "score" and determine a ranking of all users sorted by "score", in which users with the same score get the same ranking. By using user-defined variables this task can be solved intuitively and easily.

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CREATE TABLE
    user(id INT, score INT);
INSERT INTO
    user(id, score)
VALUES
    (1, 10), (2, 40), (3, 55), (4, 10), (5, 5), (6, 20), (7, 30), (8, 70), (9, 30)

Using two variables solves this simply

SET @score_prev = NULL;
SET @cur_rank = 0;
SELECT id, score, CASE
    WHEN @score_prev = score THEN @cur_rank
    WHEN @score_prev := score THEN @cur_rank := @cur_rank + 1
END AS rank
FROM user
ORDER BY score DESC

and you get the desired output

+--------+-----------+----------+
|  *id*  |  *score*  |  *rank*  |
|    8   |      70   |      1   |
|    3   |      55   |      2   |
|    2   |      40   |      3   |
|    7   |      30   |      4   |
|    9   |      30   |      4   |
|    6   |      20   |      5   |
|    1   |      10   |      6   |
|    4   |      10   |      6   |
|    5   |       5   |      7   |
+--------+-----------+----------+