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Thread: returning random row from small resultset

  1. #1
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    Jul 2000
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    I would like to return 1 row of a set randomly, for instance:

    (table test_table has 4 rows in it)

    select from test_table

    (this should give me back 1 of the 4 rows randomly, but with a normal distribution. i.e. After calling this function 100 times I should get each row about 25 times each)

    Is this possible in Oracle? What is the best performing method to do it?

    thanks much-

  2. #2
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    Aug 2000
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    use the dbms_random package.

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