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Revision: 44925
at April 20, 2011 23:16 by aamirrajpoot


Updated Code
//This is pseudo code for fetching 1 random row. I will update to add a new solution to fetch more random rows.
function randomRow(table, Idcolumn) {
    maxRow = query("SELECT MAX(Idcolumn) AS maxID FROM table");
    if (maxRow.recordCount > 0) {
        do {
            randomID = randRange(1, maxRow.maxID);
            randomRow = query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = randomID");
        } while (randomRow.recordCount == 0); 
        return randomRow;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Revision: 44924
at April 20, 2011 23:07 by aamirrajpoot


Updated Code
function randomRow(table, Idcolumn) {
    maxRow = query("SELECT MAX(Idcolumn) AS maxID FROM table");
    if (maxRow.recordCount > 0) {
        do {
            randomID = randRange(1, maxRow.maxID);
            randomRow = query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = randomID");
        } while (randomRow.recordCount == 0); 
        return randomRow;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Revision: 44923
at April 20, 2011 23:01 by aamirrajpoot


Initial Code
function randomRow(table, Idcolumn) {
    var maxRow = query("SELECT MAX(Idcolumn) AS maxID FROM table");
    do {
        randomID = randRange(1, maxRow.maxID);
        randomRow = query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = randomID");
    } while (randomRow.recordCount == 0); 
    return randomRow;
}

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Initial Description
Another version for my old Order by Rand function now it includes some PHP

Initial Title
Order by rand() Reduce time II

Initial Tags
mysql

Initial Language
PHP