On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, John P. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RE: How to do sort random? > > Rob, you missed the part about the sequence having no duplicates. To > overcome that, get the random numbers, add the record number, sort and > drop the random number part.
I did not think that was a real concern in this case because his life probably does not depend on a perfect distribution. When you make the modulo large enough it should be pretty good? Rather than picking one server at random, my understanding was that he wanted (for each request) the list of servers in random order. But I should not do plumbing challenges during break at the conference ;-) Rob
