i dont follow step #3.
At 11:42 PM 5/8/2001, Tony Shiu wrote:
>i think it is more suitable to do it in programming level in mysql, though I
>know there is a function is M$sql server.
>
>if your table schema has a unique id field, before submit a query to DB,
>1) select count(*) from it
>2) from the above resultset, program to draw whatever number of records you
>want.
>3) submit the query, select * from it where id in (your random record ids);
>
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>> How do I write SQL in MySQL to randomly select 5 records from a table?
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