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masgas

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Hi I've got this code for selecting a number of questions from a db to make a test. It's random and sometimes it selects the same questions and they appear twice in the tests... how could I stop this from happening?

$sql = "SELECT * FROM questions ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 20";

thanks in advance!
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That's impossible -- there's absolutely no way that the the statement posted above can ever return the same row twice. That's not to say that you didn't put the same question in the table itself twice -- which seems to be the case if you're getting duplicates.
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