[thelist] Free SQL Tip
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Wed Sep 1 05:09:02 CDT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burhan Khalid
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:23 AM
>
> I guess RAND() is a MySQL specific function?
Burhan,
No, RAND is not MySQL Specific. SQL Server (T-SQL) has Rand as well, but
it's not very random. It allows for a seed argument. Without a random
seed, the results of the function aren't very random either.
This GUID method is just simply "more random" in practice.
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Joshua Olson
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