Re: Generation of Random Numbers

From: Kevin Loney <Kevin.Loney_at_astramerck.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:55:38 -0500
Message-ID: <Mhm42.1124$y33.2546153@newshog.newsread.com>

In Oracle8, there's DBMS_RANDOM, see the dbmsrand.sql file in /rdbms/admin. I created one for oracle7 and oracle8, see the data chapter of the ORACLE SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives book (Obdisclaimer). There are others out on the Web that a quick Alta Vista search should find.

hth.
Kevin
http://www.kevinloney.com

Andrew Wallace wrote in message ...
>To the best of my knowledge , there is no Oracle function to return a
>random number. Am I correct ?
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>Andrew Wallace
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Received on Tue Nov 17 1998 - 15:55:38 CST