Re: [PHP-DB] Sorting in numerical order, and then randomly

2002-11-18 Thread Lisi
Hi Peter, Thanks for the suggestion, suggestion 3 works perfectly if I also switch the order of the numbering as you suggest, because then I can do order by priority desc, rand(), which returns the numbers first and then the 0's, which is what I really wanted. Also, good point about adding high

Re: [PHP-DB] Sorting in numerical order, and then randomly

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Beckman
Your options, as I see them, with 3 being the best I could come up with: 1. Make two queries. Depending on how many rows returned, this may be the less taxing option processor wise. 2. Make the random query. As you iterate through them push folks with priority 0 on one stac