I have a table of 600 or so products that I store as a cached query.. then generate a random number from one to the recordcount in CF and use it as the rowstart and rowend. Works like a charm unless you intend to have it update the data in real time.. performance gains are seen in as little as caching the query for 5 minutes :).
-Ezine -----Original Message----- From: Dowdell, Jason G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Random SQL statement This link goes into this in depth. http://www.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/randomselect.asp ~Jason -----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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
