SELECT f_name from employee_data
ORDER by f_name DESC;

+---------+
| f_name  |
+---------+
| Shahida |
| Roger   |
| Peter   |
| Paul    |
| Monica  |
| Mike    |
| Mary    |
| Manish  |  // How can i for instance spit out that Manish is item 8 in the query
| Kim     |
| Joseph  |
| John    |
| John    |
| Hassan  |
| Hal     |
| Ganesh  |
| Fred    |
| Edward  |
| Danny   |
| Arthur  |
| Anamika |
| Alok    |
+---------+
21 rows in set (0.00 sec)