Easier method:
SELECT * FROM people ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;
-Original Message-
From: David V. Edelstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:08 PM
To: 'Roger Baklund'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Random Select Statement - help please
* David V. Edelstein
> I would like to create a mySQL query that will find the max
> user_id, use this value to calculate a random value of the
> user_id from [1 thru max], then return the entire row for
> that person(user_id) filled in with that persons(row) four
> entities, which I can use to po
Hi Roger,
Thanks for your reply and I apologize for my lack of specificity on my
previous email, thanks for your patience :).
I have a people object that has 4 entities. name, pword, user_id, picurl
This data is stored in the people table. Each user is identified by
a unique user_id. I would li
