Is there a way to get the row number in Mysql like the rownum in oracle [duplicate]

Answer 1

The best practice is to add an auto incrementing ID for each row. This would also help you a lot if, one day, you choose to use relational tables.

In phpMyAdmin, when you create (or edit) a table, you'll see the AUTO_INCREMENT option. You can only have one column with auto IDs enabled.

Edit: This is how you database would look like:

id | name  | email | phone
1    Tekin   ...     ...
2    John    ...     ...
3    Jane    ...     ...

Answer 2

Until MySQL finally supports modern SQL, the only way to get something similar is this:

SELECT @rownum:=@rownum + 1 as row_number, 
       t.*
FROM ( 
   < your original query goes here >
) t,
(SELECT @rownum := 0) r