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Re: Re: Re: Re: Is there a good way of retrieving entries randomly from a database (MySQL perhaps)?by sgifford (Prior) |
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To make this technique work with questions grouped into subjects, you'd want to assign a per-subject question number, then for each subject pick a random number between 1 and the number of questions in that subject to find the record.
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