shanejeffery86 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 NOTE: I did try the solution at the top of the forum, but could not get it to work. Hey all. My query is as follows: SELECT acc_id, class, race, gender, current_level, pic_url, server, short_desc, featured, price FROM outbound_acc WHERE current_status='0' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3 Now what is happening is that the query sometimes returns 3 results and sometimes returns 2 results. It will never just continuously return 3. What am I doing wrong? I have a feeling that it has something to do with the interaction of the LIMIT and RANDOM setup. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 <ay seem like a dumb question, but how many rows do you have in your table? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanejeffery86 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 5 rows at the moment. Could the odd count be the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 How many of the rows have current_status set to 0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanejeffery86 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 All of them. I just added additional rows. There are now 10 with the current_status set to 0. Still the same issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 well, they were my quick questions, ill get back to you if i can think of anything else that might be causing it. sounds very strange! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanejeffery86 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 I could always pull all of the results and then with PHP just do a for loop with the increment of 2 (counting starts at zero) and just do it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 If you ask about this post http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,125759.0.html you may get away of doing it with a certain number of rows, can't figure it out of the top of my head, and don't have time to test it myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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