Status question about Mysql

2002-08-20 Thread Matt Heaton
Hi, I am running 3.23.49 and had a quick question I hope someone can answer. 70% of the time my sql server is doing just fine. I have 4 GIGs of memory, and a 1.33 Ghz processor.I am running Redhat 7.3 with a 2.4.19 kernel. 70% of the time my server is fine, the other 30% it is 100%

order by rand() question

2001-06-15 Thread Matt Heaton
() operation works? I can't find a specification out there for it. Thanks, Matt Heaton - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request

Question about order by rand()

2001-06-13 Thread Matt Heaton
I can't seem to find a specificatoin on order by rand() and have a question. Lets say a table has 10,000 rows in it, and I want to get one row that matches so I do a select * from table where number=1 order by rand() limit 1; What if 100 rows match? Does it first get all 100 rows and then