SAMPLE 1 will mean 1 tuple

and

SAMPLE 1.0 will mean 100%

it it is an integer is number of tuples and if it is a double is the
fraction of the total size of results

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Roberto Cornacchia <
[email protected]> wrote:

> + * A new SQL operator has been added to support sampling the result of a
>> query.
>> + * The syntax for sampling is:
>> + * SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... SAMPLE s
>> + *
>> + * where s if is an integer greater than 1, it defines the number of rows
>> to be
>> + * in the sample. If s is a double between [0.0,1.0] the it refers to the
>> + * percentage of the result to be sampled. That is if s=0.3 then the
>> sample
>> + * will be 30% the size of the query result.
>>
>
> Does this mean that it is not possible to select 1 random tuple? ("SAMPLE
> 1" would mean 100%)
>
> Roberto
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