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Old 07-30-04, 01:05
kar11 kar11 is offline
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query to return random rows
I have a table with (questions and question ID's).. i want to write a query that will return a random set of questions from the database.
How can i do this..

thanks for your help...
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Old 07-30-04, 14:02
yellowmarker yellowmarker is offline
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the following mysql query would return 10 random questions form your database:

SELECT question_id, question_text FROM table_name ORDER BY rand() limit 0,10
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