Re: Randomizing resultssets

davidai_at_shopnow.com wrote:
>
> I want to write a stored procedure that returns a set of 6 records
> randomly selected from a table. What is the best way of implementing
> this?
>
> David
>
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Not spectacularly efficient, but you can do

select *
from (

   select *
   from table
   order by <x> )
where rownum < 7

where <x> is the random number generator function of your choice..

HTH

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