If you've got access to mySQL then just ORDER BY RAND().

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Group - but with no order specified


It may well be that they don't "not care". They may be specifically
asking that they not be in any sort of discernible order.

Why are you using the group in the cfoutput instead of in the query?

--Ferg


Joe Rinehart wrote:
>> If I add a ORDER to the query, it obviously works - but, the client
>> doesn't WANT them in any order. He just wants the groups together.
>>
>
> I'm not trying to sound like a wiseass, but just point out a
> perspective:  if the client doesn't care what order they're in, what's
> the harm in ordering them?
>
> If that doesn't satisfy them, maybe try an ORDER BY on the primary key
> of whatever's giving you myGroup.
>
> -Joe
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