[database-devel] Esquleto : 'ORDER BY random()'?

Torsten Grust torsten.grust at uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Jul 12 14:27:26 CEST 2013


On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:25, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote (with possible deletions):
> Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
>
>> I'm on my phone and didn't test it, but can't you use
>>
>> orderBy [asc random_]
>>
>> ? On your SQL the ASC is implicit.

What's nice about the relational model is that it gives you
"ORDER BY random()" *anytime* you access the rows of a table. :-)

> Not quite! Too tired to chase this now. Time for bed :-).

Sleep well,
   --Torsten

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