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how to select a random item from a field



 
 
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Old July 9th, 2009, 05:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.queries
JohnL
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Default how to select a random item from a field

I am building a simple database to randomly select items from a table, but
can't seem to build a query that will randomly select one record from the
table.

Thanks,
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Old July 9th, 2009, 06:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.queries
KARL DEWEY
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Default how to select a random item from a field

Try this --
SELECT TOP 1 [YourTable].*
FROM YourTable
ORDER BY Rnd(Asc([YourTable].[SomeField]));

"JohnL" wrote:

I am building a simple database to randomly select items from a table, but
can't seem to build a query that will randomly select one record from the
table.

Thanks,

 




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