Does it actually have to be random per se? If you have a site with moderate
traffic, I might just iterate a counter in the application scope so that it
/appears/ random to a user, but keeps the overhead minimal.
--Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:09 PM
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: Random SQL statement
:
:
: I have a table with a Unique ID field and I would like to do a random
: select on the table UID.
:
: Basically I want to send the user to a page that displays that random
: record.
:
: Does SQL have a random function? I cant find anything in my books.
: SELECT rand(ID)
: FROM table
:
: Or should I select all records from the table and use CF to pick a
: random record from the dataset?
:
: Thanks,
: Chad
:
:
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