On 8 January 2018 at 09:19, petern <peter.nichvolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your inner CTE will have to examine every generated row and count only > matches toward "running_num". > > Good idea, that works - sqlite> with r(num, rand, running_num) as (select 1, cast(round(abs(random())/9223372036854775808) as int), 1 union all select num+1, cast(round(abs(random())/9223372036854775808) as int), case rand when 1 then running_num+1 else running_num end from r) select running_num, num from r where rand=1 limit 3; running_num num 1 1 2 2 3 6 sqlite> P.S one reason I am using SQL instead the main application to perform such calculations is precisely to avoid using variables (and hence the evils of mutable state). Why do you say it is more efficient? _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
