Re: Selecting a random record from more than 1 table

2005-01-14 Thread Rhino
t; > Christian > > -Original Message- > From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2005 12:56 AM > To: Christian Biggins; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Selecting a random record from more than 1 table > > > - Original Message -

Re: Selecting a random record from more than 1 table

2005-01-14 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Christian Biggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:07 AM Subject: Selecting a random record from more than 1 table > Hi Guys > > I am trying to display 1 random record taken from 2 tables. > > I have

Selecting a random record from more than 1 table

2005-01-13 Thread Christian Biggins
Hi Guys I am trying to display 1 random record taken from 2 tables. I have tried the following; SELECT table1.record1, table1.record2, table2.record1 FROM table1, table2 ORDER BY RAND() Limit 1 With no luck... So now I am trying to use CREATE VIEW but also with no luck... Can anybody help out?

RE: Selecting a random record

2001-01-15 Thread The Tilghman
15:15 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: Selecting a random record > > > Any idea why I get this error when I try to create this table > on a clean > 3.23.30 install on a BSDI box. > This was the output from a mysqldump from version 2.22.32 on a working > datab

FW: Selecting a random record

2001-01-15 Thread Alan Halls
Any idea why I get this error when I try to create this table on a clean 3.23.30 install on a BSDI box. This was the output from a mysqldump from version 2.22.32 on a working database. It will not allow me to recreate my database on the new version. mysql> CREATE TABLE pp_additional_features (

Re: Selecting a random record

2001-01-15 Thread Scott Baker
To simplify SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3 ORDER BY Rand() LIMIT 1; At 10:01 AM 1/15/2001 -0700, Alan Halls wrote: > On the site Adoption.com we have been using a mysql database to > set up >families who want to adopt. We have since redesigned our site and the old >code is not working fo

Selecting a random record

2001-01-15 Thread Alan Halls
On the site Adoption.com we have been using a mysql database to set up families who want to adopt. We have since redesigned our site and the old code is not working for us. I am trying to design a section of code in ASP to connect to the database and return a random record. Here is what I