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Old October 9th, 2003, 10:58 AM
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Help!! Returning Random 10 Records form a database??

How can I do it???


Thank you very much!!!

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Hi, what kind of database do you use?

This snippet should work with MySQL but shouldn't be to hard to convert to use, say a Access db...

I assume you have a field called id that are autonumbered....
I also assumed that the random numbers dont have to be unique

Code:
<% 
dim dbConn,RecSet,SQL,myTotal, CntRecords
set dbConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
dbConn.Open "Driver=mySQL};Server=localhost;Database=MyDatabase;uid=MyUID;pwd=MyPWD"

'First we need to know how many records there are in the table
SQL = "Select Count(*) AS myTotal FROM MYTABLE"
Set RecSet = dbConn.Execute(SQL)
'CntRecords now holds the number of records in the table
CntRecords = recset("myTotal") 

'we need an array to hold the id's of the records
dim ArrRecord(10)

'then we use a simple for-next loop to get the numbers from the array
'and select the corresponding record from the db
for x = 1 to 10
'add a random number to the array
'we dont want a zero, so that's why we add +1
ArrRecord(x) = int(rnd * (mytotal-1))+1
next x

for x = 1 to 10
SQL = "SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE ID='"&ArrRecord(x)&"'"
set recset=dbConn.execute(SQL)

'here you can do anything with the record you've selected

next x

%>


Hope this helps...

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