Thanks Alex, will try it out!
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Alexander Burger wrot=
e:
> Hi Henrik,
>
>> Imagine having thousands of articles in a database, AFAIK using
>> collect to get them all and then getting a random subsection would not
>> be the best solution as the process would eat up a lot of memory.
>
> You could use 'maxKey' to get the highest key in the database, and then
> use 'rand' repeatedly to find objects with 'db':
>
> =A0 (let Max (maxKey (tree 'aid '+Article))
> =A0 =A0 =A0(do 100
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (until (db 'aid '+Article (rand 1 Max)))
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (printsp @) ) )
>
> Cheers,
> - Alex
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