I have resolved this myself. Cheers.
Closed.

Hello everyone. I'm a noob to MySql, so I'm hoping this is easy and I apologise in advance if I've got the terminology all wrong; I've searched the forum but couldn't find an answer.

I have a Joomla database with a lot of imported data from various sources. The table 'jos_content' has an indexing column 'ordering' (distinct from the primary auto incrementing index 'id') which affects how rows are ordered in the admin backend of Joomla....