页首横幅：返回5条记录，然后是我想要的一条，再返回4条记录

Question

I'm constructing a leaderboard, and I want a specific user to be in the middle of the returned records.

In other words, I want 5 higher scored users, then the user I want in the middle, then the next 4 lower:

   **users:**
    User, Score
    Rita, 9
    Sue, 8
    Bob, 7
    Bill, 6
    Sam, 5
    **ME, 4** <-- This would be the user I want in the middle.
    Sally, 3
    Simon, 2
    John, 1
    Jim, 0

I could do it in PHP, but just wanted to try and do it with a more elegant SQL statement.

I have literally no idea how I would even approach it!

Thanks

Answer 1

Something to think about:

SELECT id,name FROM my_table;
+----+---------+
| id | name    |
+----+---------+
|  1 | Adam    |
|  2 | Ben     |
|  3 | Charlie |
|  4 | Adam    |
|  5 | Ben     |
|  6 | Dan     |
+----+---------+

SELECT * FROM 
(SELECT id,name FROM my_table ORDER BY id LIMIT 2) x
UNION
(SELECT id,name FROM my_table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2);
+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+------+
|  1 | Adam |
|  2 | Ben  |
|  6 | Dan  |
|  5 | Ben  |
+----+------+