Displaying 2 Random Records For DB
Im looking for a very simple and small script that will display 2 random records for a database, but i havnt found one yet. Can someone help me on this one?
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Displaying Images At Random From SQL Query String
I have a database of images with captions that I need to display at random on an ASP page. Once I have pulled out my recordset, what's the best way to select on item at random from the recordset to display? Also, at first I might have only 5 items in my recordset, how can I avoid the same item repeating 3 times in a row if the person clicks refresh?
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I want to take 3 records from a database. The selection must first take any record marked as priority and then random records (so there could be 3 priority records and no more or 1 priority and 2 random etc)
My theory is to build a recordset filtered by records marked priority, and if there are less than 3, build a second recordset of all the other records.
Questions
1, how can I select random records form the second recordset, without selecting the same one twice?
2, OR, could I write a sql statement which would randomly select 3 records from my table
3, Or is they a way I could write a query (view) in Access which would do the whole lot for me (select the priority records and then random records up to 3)?
Random Records
I know how to generate random record from a database, the problem i need to overcome is like this:
1.If the user refreshes the page is a way i can control the randomized data from not repeating itself on display?
DB Random Records From Array
I have read 10000 opinions on returning random records and I am more
confused now that before I started. I have a small access db that will
contain 20 or so rows with 3 or 4 columns. I like to return a set of 6
distinct rows and display the columns in html. I have seen response.write
and loops but can't I throw the 6 random rows in a array and pull the data
as I need it in the page? Examples?
Random Pictures Records
I have this page where I want to display 3 random pictures in a vertical table. Each picture represents a record in an Access database. The field "picname" holds the name of the picture (e.g. "pic1.jpg", "pic2.jpg", etc). Each record has a unique ID. How do I go about selecting these 3 records? I want the pictures to alternate everytime someone enters the page or refreshes it. I found a couple of javascript options, but they only choose the picture from within a folder, and I need to be able to link the pictures to each record.I don't know if I made myself clear enough.
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I am doing a simple program which display random records to students.The student table has the following fields(Access Database) Code:
1.Studentid-Number
2.Studentname-Text
3.Class-Text
4.Ans-Text
and Question table as
1.Questionid-Number
2.Questions-Text
Now What i am trying to do is , when the first time is student is login,he wil be shown a random record from the question and his answered wil be stored in the Ans field of the student table with column separeated.
The he will be redirected to the same page with one new question.This question should not be in the Ans Field, and must be randomly generated.I am using this code.But this not working. Code:
Random Records Code
Here's what i need:
[vbs]
"SELECT * FROM Articles WHERE Category = 'Reviews' and SubCat = {RANDOM CATEGORY} LIMIT 5;"
[/vbs]
Now, I think the last post on the thread I read said the guy could make an Array and just pick a random item out of that...and that makes sense in my case, listing all the Categories and then picking a random one.But, I don't know how to do it! I don't have much experience in arrays
Controlling Random Records
i am currently working on an online test tool using ASP. Now, the questions would be generated randomly from a database(access), so two or more candidates will not have the same question. There will be one question per page. Now, i have successfully generated the radom questions from the database.
But i have a problem which is:
1. When i click the next link to go the next question, my code displays the question on the previous.
2. Also, when i click on the previous link to go back to the previous question my code changes the question from the previously answered to a new question. Code:
Random Database Records
I'm trying to create a portion of script that would select x (variable) number of random records from a table.
in PHP, I could do this pretty simply with a line like, "select * from table order by rand() limit x", but the solutions I've seen so far for asp and access involve things like 40 lines of code, selecting the entire contents of a database, creating temporary tables, etc.
Is there any quick and dirty way of doing this?
Selecting Random Records
i want to select some records from my database by random. i want also to set a limit (limit=9).
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I want to select 5 random records from my database..I tried to suft the net and foundout this sql
SELECT TOP (3) Question, Choice1, Choice2, Choice3, Choice4
FROM Question
But when i tried to execute,i t always gave me the most top 2 records. why?Is this sql statement woring?How can i select 5 random records from the database?
Weighted Random Records
Do you have any idea about weighted random records ? (for MSAccess AND SQL Server) Also can I get weighted random records just by SQL Language ?
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I have a tough question that i ca't get over it for all the day.
I have two different news tables. I can't get any of them and list.
Bu i want to do something different. I want to get both and randomize them and list them.
for example,
1. news (from the 1st db)
2. news (from the 2nd db)
etc.
is that possible, because i couln't find any solution for this.
9 Random Records - Returns All But First Record In RS
I have been using this script which basically works fine, with on hitch. I populate a recordset from a database. Then, use the total number of records as a UBound.
I then want to display 9 random records. I get my 9 random images, but for some reason, if I do a sort by ID on the database, the lowest numbered ID file never comes up in the list. Here is my code: Code:
To Retreive 'unique' Random Records
I have to develop an online quiz on my website. the site is developed in ASP.
i have a access database of the questions, the multiple ans.s and the correct ans. every quest. has an unique id.
i want a way by which any 10 'unique' quests. will be selected from the database everytime an user takes the test.
Selecting Random Records From Database How?
The following code should select the specified number of records randomly from the database .....
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I know there are plenty of threads relating to 'random' records, but non of the code samples seem to return random results each time I refresh the page; or don't show any results at all? The ID numbers for my recordset are not necessarily consecutive numbers (some items may have been deleted). I simply want to feature 2 or 3 random news teasers on my home page WHERE feature="yes". I guess I need to call 3 random id's, and keep looking until a record is returned? I would also like to change the number of 'teasers' displayed via another database table - I can do this later, but the code has to accommodate a flexible way to change how many records are returned.
Here's the Access table:
news (TBL):
id
title
shortdescr
longdescr
feature
If you have a possible answer for me could you please provide sample code and spell it out clearly.
Display Records In Random Order
I Have searched the forum but have no solution to this problem.
I want to display my records in a random order. I loop through my records so I don't know how many records will be displayed. I dont want to count the records and then use the TOP statement. I'm looking for a better solution.
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.Open SELECT test FROM testTable WHERE testId = 1, objConn
Do While Not rs.EOF
Response.Write "<b>" & rs("test") & "</b>" <- I want theese records to be displayed in random order
rs.MoveNext
Loop
Anyone has a solution to this problem?
Returning Random 10 Records Form A Database?
How can I do it?
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I need to pull five records randomly from a database, and display them on a web page. These need to change weekly.
Is there a way to do this in ASP?
Displaying All Records
How do you display all your fields from an SQL table in a web page - BUT make them clickable to make any changes???
E.G. I have a users table with firstname and surname in, but I wish to amend the surname??
I know the code to amend the changes, but dont know how to display the records and make them clickable!!!
Displaying Records
is there a code or query that i can use to display everything but the first record?
here's my sql:
sql = "SELECT * FROM Hotstory ORDER by DateTime DESC"
what i'm using to display:
Response.Write("<a href=' " & rs("URL") & " 'target='_blank'>" &rs("Title")&"-"&rs("DateTime")& "</a>")
Displaying Records
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help with the following;
I have a database which contains a list of products with prices and a set of variables.
I'd like to store the product prices as session variables....
Displaying Records
I found a displaying records of a Database in a HTML table,but i want the opposite. I want to insert the content from an HTML or ASP page and no a TXT file into a Database.
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I have a database that has a column for an expiring date. How would I query the database to display only records whose expiring date is greater than the current date? For example, if the current date was 6/16/2004 and there were these expiring dates:
6/1/2004 6/15/2004 6/17/2004 6/18/2004 then only 6/17 and 6/18 would display.
Displaying Different Records
I am building an asp webshop and have an accesss database with all the products. I can create a catalogue page using repeating regions to display all the products no problems but I want to customise a bit. Just say I want to display products 3, 7 and 10, what I have been doing is to created 3 seperate recordsets in Dreamweaver with the filter ProdID = Entered Value 3, 7 and 10 respectively.
I then bind the product name, price, description for each of the 3 products to the page. My questions - Is there a better way of doing this especially if I have a catalogue page with many products and many recordsets. I want to build the pages in this manner so it is like a static page but with a database content (not with repeating regions).
Is it possible to have just 1 recordset and pass the values 3, 7 and 10 through it and then bind the results to the page seperately (How do I code it?). If this is possible is it a more efficient way of working than having a seperate recordset for each product. Is it a drain on the server to have to deal with say 10 recordsets or it OK?
Displaying No Of Records
my search engine shows 14 records per page and displays the total number of pages with that search criteria.
if there are 140 search results it shows 10 page links at the bottom of the screen ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)it also does the same thing if there are 1400 results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 etc etc up untill 140)
i am trying to stop this and only allow it to show 10 page links at a time then next, for example if there are 12 pages it would look like this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >next> (then the next links. i would like this to show 10 pages each time.
Not Displaying Imported Records
I am working on exporting my results to excel and running into an issue where I wasn't getting any records but have since now been able to see some records now....it appears to only be showing records that I have added thru the web interface to the database, it's not showing the records that I imported (SQL database).
My results.asp displays all the records properly, it's just not working on my export to excel. I've looked at the data in the SQL table but I don't see anything unusual. Has anyone ever run into this before and have any clue on what I can check now?
Displaying Records By Date From To
I want to be able to display records inputed from Monday at 12:00am to Sunday at 5 pm. Every week.
So far, I can display records for the last 7 days, but How can I be more specific?
Any Ideas??
Records Stopped Displaying?
I've got some code that displays public event info on a page - unfortunately, it seems to have stopped working today for some reason and I don't know why (there are 2 records in the database that match the criteria, so I know that's not the problem: Code:
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I have a search page which has radio buttons for two search options (location, price) and checkboxes for one other option (type). The radio buttons reference the "general" table in my database, and the checkboxes reference boolean records in the "cuisine" table.
My task is to display, on a subsequent page, records that match the two radio buttons selected as well as each checkbox. Code:
Displaying # Records Returned
short n simple question: I want to display the number of records returned from a search. Code fragment as follows:
// d/b retrieval SQL code
SQLCode = SQLCode
Set objRS = objConn.Execute (SQLCode)
// displaying the returned results
Do While (Not objRS.EOF
<< spit out records >>
objRS.MoveNext
Loop
Now, is there an instance of objRS I can call that will just display how many records were returned? I tried objRS.Count on a longshot, but that didn't work