Re: Outputting Selects in Random Order

[Bob Kline]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Hunter Hillegas wrote:

> Sure....
> 
> I have a list of songs in a database that I use to build a radio playlist.
> Currently they come out in insertion order (or something close) when I use
> 'select * from audio_files'...
> 
> I would like them to come out in random order so I don't have to shuffle the
> playlist externally... Just wondering if I could handle that in the DB
> instead of doing it externally...

Ok, in that case, go to http://www.egroups.com/list/mysql/ and enter the
search string "Trouble with RAND function" to get to the thread others
have been directing you to.

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