Re: Random query question

one simple way would be to fetch all the records, then generate two
non-equal random numbers in the range of found records, then pluck
those two out of the result array. The returned records are numbered
0-10 in that array so it will be very simple to do!

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php

Regards,
Don

On May 19, 5:56 am, Sarpidon <epap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I have a companies table and those companies have promotions. Each
> company can have up to 10 promotions but only 2 can be displayed from
> each company at one time. I've been trying to figure out how to
> generate a single query that will select only 2 promotions randomly
> from each company. Is that even possible?
>
> see screenshot attached -->http://screencast.com/t/dB2sqcEns
>
> so basically randomly select only 2 promotions with the same
> company_id...
> possible? how?
>
> Thank you for your time.

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