Data ordering issue in MYSQL

Lewis Wheeler

got a small little problem I’m hoping someone can help me with.

I have the following dataset in MYSQL:

SELECT * FROM account;

pk  |  customer
1   |   1
2   |   0
3   |   1

I only need the customer column BUT I need it to be in the same order as above e.g.:

customer
1
0
1

However whenever I try and perform the following command, I get the following:

SELECT customer FROM account

customer
0
1
1

I have already tried the following with no luck:

SET @rownum=0;
SELECT @rownum:=@rownum+1 as rank, customer FROM account

rank |  customer
1    |   0
2    |   1
3    |   1

UPDATE: I forgot to add something important. I can’t rely on ordering by the primary key, mainly because the primary key could be a varchar and not integer in some circumstances.

I need the order in which the data was inserted in the database. When I do the same query returning varchar values it is in the correct order.

Any ideas?

Answer: SQL query no order by question