cool! works.
thanx, Andy
"Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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(
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.
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Why not just get a random number in
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 t
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?
