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You could add your own sort_order column in the table and create functions to handle the adding, deleting and reordering of slides then you can always just call: ORDER BY sort_order???
How can you count the rows without querying the database? I guess I still don't really understand what you're trying to do. Can you post some more information to explain what end result you're looking for?