Perhaps something like:
CREATE TABLE foo2 AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE (rand() <= 0.60);
?
HTH,
Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC
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Subject: Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] How to split a table?
Felix Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records
> which are randomly selected from the source table.
> How to do it?
Why do you want to do this?
Andreas
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