If you literally used "ORDER BY 1234567892" then there's nothing in the record being sorted.
I can't recall is SQLite allows order by aliases, but something like.. Select ..., random() as X Order by X Might work, as long as random() is executed for each row. (Sorry.. don't have a quick SQLite engine available to test) -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of François-xavier Jacobs Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:48 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: [sqlite] order by "a huge number" does not work, but "random" well why ? Hi everyone i would like to "seed random" a request, so i could do use some pagination system with a order by random(), is this possible sqlite ? when a tried to use "order by 1234567892" it always return the same order _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
