Re: Randomising a query

2004-09-28 Thread Tony Weeg
thats more than id like to have on a cfm template. why not put that logic on the data layer? tw On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:23:52 -0700, Nathan Strutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a UDF for that... > > http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/QueryRandomRows > > It works AFTER you've gotten your query

Re: Randomising a query

2004-09-28 Thread Nathan Strutz
There's a UDF for that... http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/QueryRandomRows It works AFTER you've gotten your query recordset from the database. -nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ James Smith wrote: > Is there any way to randomise a query result set?  I was thinking of > adding... > > SELECT r

RE: Randomising a query

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Brownlee
SELECT TOP 900 * FROM Table WHERE foo=bar ORDER BY NEWID() From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Randomising a query Is there any way to randomise a query result set?  I was thinking of addin

Re: Randomising a query

2004-09-28 Thread Tony Weeg
you can always use... select * from myTable order by newid() that will select everything from that table (not recommended, but for this purpose it will work) the order by newid() will create a new UUID for each row, and of course, but doing so, will make it a random result set as those are VERY