Have a look at the explanation in Thomas Kyte's page:
http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/Misc/Random.html
George D. Benetos <gbene_at_intrasoft.gr> wrote in message
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> Hello ,
> This is the problem :
> I;m trying to use the package DBMS_RANDOM to produce random number , but
> there is a mistake.
> The SQL Block is :
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> declare
>
> k number;
> i number;
>
> j BINARY_INTEGER;
>
> begin
>
> j:=10000;
> DBMS_RANDOM.INITIALIZE(j);
> DBMS_RANDOM.SEED(10000);
> k:=DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM;
> DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(k);
> DBMS_RANDOM.TERMINATE;
>
> end;
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and the message is :
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> -------------------------
> ORA-06550: line 11, column 1:
> PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_RANDOM.INITIALIZE' must be declared
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> -------------------------
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Furthermore , is there another way to produce random numbers in Oracle ?
>
> Thanks in advance .....
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> George D. Benetos
> Electrical & Computer Engineer , NTUA
>
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Received on Wed Jan 26 2000 - 06:45:05 CST
