Re: [GENERAL] [NOVICE] How to split a table?

2006-10-17 Thread Obe, Regina
I would do   select * into mynewtable from myoldtable ORDER by random() LIMIT 15000   where 15000 in this case is *.6   If you want to create another table with 40% of the remaining data then something like   select * into mynewtable2 from myoldtable where myoldtable.primarykey

Re: [GENERAL] [NOVICE] How to split a table?

2006-10-17 Thread Christoph Frick
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:39:21PM +0800, Felix Zhang wrote: > I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% > records which are randomly selected from the source table. How to do > it? i do my A/B-Group splitting usually by &1 the serial of the table. assuming, that there