[PHP-DEV] Bug #10590 Updated: Retrieving Random Rows From: derick <email protected>
Date: 05/01/01

ID: 10590
Updated by: derick
Reported By: marty <email protected>
Old-Status: Open
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: MySQL related
PHP Version: 4.0.5
Assigned To:
Comments:

Not a PHP bug (but thx for the suggestion)

Jani and Derick

Previous Comments:
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[2001-05-01 17:25:29] marty <email protected>
in response to some of the user contributed notes on the 'rand()' function page, a good way to pull a randmon row from a MySql database ( < ver 3.23 ) is:

SELECT field, field*rand() AS ran FROM table ORDER BY ran LIMIT 1

hope it helps.

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