MySQL uses variables to implement various sorting

-- Below I will demonstrate the implementation of the sort column in MySQL -- test data CREATE TABLE tb
(
score INT
);
INSERT tb SELECT 
5 UNION ALL SELECT 
4 UNION ALL SELECT 
4 UNION ALL SELECT 
4 UNION ALL SELECT 
3 UNION ALL SELECT 
2 UNION ALL SELECT
1;
--1. row_number sorting SET @row_number =0;
SELECT @row_number := @row_number+1 AS row_number,score 
FROM tb 
ORDER BY score DESC ;
+------------+-------+
| row_number | score |
+------------+-------+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 |
+------------+-------+
--2. dense_rank sorting SET @dense_rank = 0, @prev_score = NULL;
SELECT @dense_rank :=IF(@prev_score=score,@dense_rank,@dense_rank+1) AS decnse_rank,
  @prev_score := score AS score 
FROM tb 
ORDER BY score DESC ; 
+-------------+-------+
|decns_rank | score |
+-------------+-------+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 |
+-------------+-------+
--3. Rank sorting SET @row=0,@rank=0,@prev_score=NULL;
SELECT @row:=@row+1 AS ROW,
    @rank:=IF(@prev_score=score,@rank,@row) AS rank,
    @prev_score:=score AS score
FROM tb 
ORDER BY score DESC;
+------+------+-------+
| ROW | rank | score |
+------+------+-------+
| 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 6 | 2 |
| 7 | 7 | 1 |
+------+------+-------+