Hi there,
is it possible to get mysql to return a record out of a table on a random
basis?
I tryed:
select rand() ID, city
from data.cities
where country = 'CA'
LIMIT 1
but does not work though. Has anybody an idea? I tryed also to read all
results and do the random thing with php, but this
Why not just get a random number in PHP and do a select statement like
that? IE
SELECT ID, city FROM data.cities WHERE country = 'CA' and ID = rand()
-Chris
At 02:52 PM 5/7/2002 +0200, andy wrote:
Hi there,
is it possible to get mysql to return a record out of a table on a random
basis?
I
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 20:52, andy wrote:
Hi there,
is it possible to get mysql to return a record out of a table on a random
basis?
I tryed:
select rand() ID, city
from data.cities
where country = 'CA'
LIMIT 1
but does not work though. Has anybody an idea? I tryed also to read all
but how can I be sure that this id does exist?
sure, I could count all records and than do a rand(0,$value); but there
might be a better way in mysql directly.
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Why not just get a random number in PHP
cool! works.
thanx, Andy
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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 20:52, andy wrote:
Hi there,
is it possible to get mysql to return a record out of a table on a
random
basis?
I tryed:
select rand() ID, city
from
