On 10/3/05, Graham Anderson <grahama@xxxxxxxx> wrote:> what would be the best way to make MYSQL's RAND() more random ? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mathematical-functions.html: <snip>RAND() is not meant to be a perfect random generator, but instead afast way to generate ad hoc random numbers that is portable betweenplatforms for the same MySQL version.</snip> You might try pulling the results into a PHP array and then use PHP'srandom functions instead. I always got good randomness withmt_rand(). --Greg DonaldZend Certified EngineerMySQL Core Certificationhttp://destiney.com/
