I have a 2 tables with the same structure: table1 id text var 1 “bla bla” 100 1 “blabla1” 30 2 “qweweqty” 0 2 etc… 7 3 3 1 .. 100 table2 id text …
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SQL Query with Group , Order by and Random at the same time
I was unable to find anything similar to this problem. As we see John and David has more than one row and there’s a Order column so we can order it simply using ORDER BY Name ASC, Order ASC but this is not exactly what i need.. Here is the problem: i would like to know if its possible to
How can I get the information from one field in a query to use in another query?
I am still trying to finish fixing my details page and I need one more piece to fix it. I start with this query. NOTE:recordID actually comes in from the previous page by clicking an item. Also, name, img, item_code, and type_id are fields in my table not outside sources. Now, I have created this to determine how to display
Select n random rows from SQL Server table
I’ve got a SQL Server table with about 50,000 rows in it. I want to select about 5,000 of those rows at random. I’ve thought of a complicated way, creating a temp table with a “random number” column, …
How to request a random row in SQL?
How can I request a random row (or as close to truly random as is possible) in pure SQL? Answer See this post: SQL to Select a random row from a database table. It goes through methods for doing this in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Oracle (the following is copied from that link): Select a random