http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/a/Mathematical_functions.html
describes how to do this using the RAND() function.
-Original Message-
From: Alec Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:27 PM
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Subject: How to structure a random query
I'm just
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Alec Smith wrote:
I've got a table of X rows, each with a unique ID as determined by
auto_increment when the row is inserted into the database. How would I go
about doing a SELECT on a row of the database and have MySQL return a row
at random?
Maybe you can do something
You could also do something like:
select field1, field2 from table order by rand() limit 1;
HTH
Ben
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From: "Philip Mak" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:50 PM
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