Another Random Record Selection Method

By Bill Graziano on 6 January 2002 | 0 Comments | Tags: Randomness

Dutch submitted "Yet an other method to random select a records from a database. However this method does not use a temporary table, which has a lot of overhead when you're dealing with large tables." Follow the link to Another Random Record Selection Method...

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