MS SQl server lets you order by newid() ie. select * from My_Table order by newid()
I have no clue if this works in Access or not. Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Keith McGee wrote: > I created a random record generator for pulling current news items. > I am using an access database for the back end and would like to > know if anyone has a better solution. This code works, but I think > I'm missing something. Thank you in advance Keith. > > Step 1: Pull the current records and get a count. > <cfquery name="get_news_count" datasource="#dsn#"> > select fld_page_ID > from tbl_marketing_pages > where fld_item_type = "n" > and fld_active_date <= #now()# > and fld_inactive_date >= #now()# > </cfquery> > > Step 2: Generate a random number from our count. > <cfset intRandomNumber = randRange(get_news_count.recordcount, > listLen(get_news_count.recordcount))> > > Step 3: Output the query starting with the row equal to our random > number and only output one row. > <cfoutput query="get_news_count" startrow="#intRandomNumber#" > maxrows="1"> > > Step 4: Set a random record id with the record ID that came back > from our query. > <cfset randomID = #fld_page_ID#> > </cfoutput> > > Step 5: Pull all the information from using our random record ID in > our where statement. > <cfif get_news_count.fld_page_ID GT ""> > > <cfquery name="get_news" datasource="#dsn#"> > select fld_title, fld_body, fld_attach_ID, fld_url, > fld_active_date, fld_inactive_date > from tbl_marketing_pages > where fld_page_ID = #randomID# > </cfquery> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314221 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
