Re: Creating random data in a test table based on an existing table

2003-11-11 Thread Olof Tjerngren
How about somethine like this as a starting point: insert into testuser (firstname,lastname) select u1.firstname,u2.lastname from user u1, user u2 order by rand() limit 1; MvH, Luis Lebron wrote: I have an users table for a php application that I am programming. The current users table has

Creating random data in a test table based on an existing table

2003-11-10 Thread Luis Lebron
I have an users table for a php application that I am programming. The current users table has about 1500 records. I would like to create a test table (i.e. users_test) with 10,000 records based on random data from the first table (i.e. random first name combined with a random last name, etc...). I