Re: [PHP-DB] Pick a row, any row.

2001-05-17 Thread Gary Huntress
the syntax "order by rand()" is new in version 3.23 -- Regards, Gary "SuperID" Huntress === FreeSQL.org offering free database hosting to developers Visit http://www.freesql.org ""Johannes Janson"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 9e11f0

Re: [PHP-DB] Pick a row, any row.

2001-05-17 Thread Johannes Janson
Hi, > How can I pick a random row? SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0, 1; I'm not really sure but it worked with order by rand. Check the manual on that if it doesn't work hope it helps Johannes -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

[PHP-DB] Pick a row, any row.

2001-05-17 Thread Dan Eskildsen
Newbie alert! Hi. Just a qucik question: Does anyone know of a random function that I can use. I want to query my database. Then random pick one of the rows in the result, and then display the contents of the randomly picked row. How can I pick a random row? Thank you in advance. --