Add DISTINCT(primary_key) in your query?
Regards
Willy
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From: Christian Hammers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 2:57 AM
To: Daevid Vincent
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Subject: Re: ORDER BY RAND() gives me duplicate rows sometimes
On 2006-11-09 Daevid Vincent wrote:
I am using
On 2006-11-09 Daevid Vincent wrote:
I am using this query to pull three random comments from a table:
SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(created_on, '%b %D') as date_format FROM comments
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3;
The problem is that sometimes, I get two of the same comment. How can I
refine this
