RE: CFQUERY of non-swequential primary key ids

I am not sure why you are doing the second query... Why make the *randomization* more complicated than it has to be??? Simplify: !--- GET 2ND VALUE TO BE PASSED TO RANDRANGE --- CFQUERY name=get_vids_a datasource=#datasource# maxrows=1 select vidwee_id from vidweek /CFQUERY

RE: CFQUERY of non-swequential primary key ids

How very inefficient. How about something like this: cfquery name=get_vid_ids datasource=#datasource# SELECT vidwee_id FROM vidweek /cfquery cfset idList=valueList(get_vid_ids.vidwee_id) cfset idPosition=randRange(1,listLen(idList),SHA1PRNG) cfset VAL_ID=listGetAt(idList,idPosition) CFQUERY

Re: CFQUERY of non-swequential primary key ids

You could query the table and get a list of the available IDs. Generate a random number between 1 and listlen() and then using ListGetAt() you can get that random ID and then query the DB again to pull back that record. On 8/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I'm doing a

RE: CFQUERY of non-swequential primary key ids

Subject: RE: CFQUERY of non-swequential primary key ids How very inefficient. How about something like this: cfquery name=get_vid_ids datasource=#datasource# SELECT vidwee_id FROM vidweek /cfquery cfset idList=valueList(get_vid_ids.vidwee_id) cfset idPosition=randRange(1,listLen(idList