Might it be simpler, since you're assuming the presence of PHP anyway,
to just read your entire result set into an array and then shuffle() it
and then pick off the top however-many entries?
Of course, that won't be very memory-efficient for particularly large
data sets...
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Mark Roedel
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> From: Poon, Kelvin (Infomart) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:13 AM
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> Subject: [PHP-DB] MSSQL/PHP problem
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> WHen I retrieve this data from php to display on my webpage I
> get this:
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> Globe and
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Worthington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:34 AM
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> Subject: [PHP-DB] mysql_fetch_array limit? - more details
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> What happens is I'm only getting the first 256 characters of
> txtSWDesc1 displayed
