The table structure is in my original post.
On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Rolando Edwards wrote:
Just change your table name and you are all set.
If you have the table structure, send it
and I'll make the query if you want.
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Subject: Re: Workaround for distinct?
This works also
select min(A.id) id,A.color
from color_table A left join color_table B
on A.color=B.color
group by A.color
order by rand();
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Subject: Re: Workaround for distinct?
Here onoe that should work.
It only uses a LEFT JOIN
It does not use Subqueries
It does not use DISTINCT
Here it is
do Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Dunning
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Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:17:30 PM GMT-0500 US/Eastern
Subject: Re: Workaround for distinct?
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Chris Boget wrote:
=>>I tried this out this morning on MySQL 5.
=>
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Chris Boget wrote:
=>>I tried this out this morning on MySQL 5.
=>> It works. Please try this in MySQL 4 and see.
=>
=>Unless I'm way off, I do not believe your solution will work in 4.x because
=>it doesn't support sub-queries...
=>
4.1 does. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/re
I tried this out this morning on MySQL 5.
It works. Please try this in MySQL 4 and see.
Unless I'm way off, I do not believe your solution will work in 4.x because
it doesn't support sub-queries...
thnx,
Chris
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om (select min(id) id,color from color_table group by
color) A order by rand();
select A.id,A.color from (select min(id) id,color from color_table group by
color) A order by rand();
Give It A Try !!!
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| id | color |
+++
| 1 | red|
| 2 | blue |
| 3 | red|
| 4 | yellow |
| 5 | yellow |
| 6 | blue |
| .. | ...|
I'm trying to select 5 random records, but no more than 1 of any
given color. According to the notes in the documentation and to my
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