I've tried Googling till my brain is fried and I'm obviously missing
something because I'm not finding anything useful.
I'm trying to select names at random from a table that contains the
name and the frequency at which it is actually used in society. The
table is defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE `MaleNames` (
`Name_ID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`Name` char(50) default NULL,
`Frequency` decimal(5,3) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Name_ID`)
)
Some examples:
1, Aaron, 0.240
3, Abe, 0.006
13, Adrian, 0.069
What's the best way to select names at random from this but still take
into account frequency of use?
Thanks in advance!
Matt
