I don't think the answer has changed since last week :-)
IMHO it's not really slow and inefficient, anyway - this script:
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mysql_select_db(Playground, $db);
mysql_query(CREATE TABLE mytable (myfield INTEGER UNSIGNED, PRIMARY KEY
You asked this earlier this week.
The answer has not changed.
Matt Heaton wrote:
Hi all, trying to do something and have it be as efficient as possilble. My
question is if I have a table with say 10,000 rows in it, and I issue
a command like this
select * from table where number=1 order
I don't think the answer has changed since last week :-)
IMHO it's not really slow and inefficient, anyway - this script:
(clipped)
produces a table with 1 rows each containing an integer. Then we do:
mysql SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5;
(clipped)
5 rows in set (0.08
In a slight change of this question (since I have no data to currently test
this with, as my ISP is using too old a version of mysql), does anyone know
what something like this would do?
SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND(), date LIMIT 5;
I'd like to be able to pull out a certain number of
In a slight change of this question (since I have no data to
currently test this with, as my ISP is using too old a
version of mysql), does anyone know what something like
this would do?
SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND(), date LIMIT 5;
Exactly the same as SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER
Gotcha. So is there any way to return 5 (some number) rows, chosen
randomly, and then sort them by date (or name or whatever). So the final
result is a list, sorted by date, but of rows chosen randomly from the
table.
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temptable TYPE=HEAP SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER
In a slight change of this question (since I have no data to
currently test this with, as my ISP is using too old a
version of mysql), does anyone know what something like
this would do?
SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND(), date LIMIT 5;
Exactly the same as SELECT * FROM theTable
