RE: Generate random number

From: Scott Crabtree <scott_at_psscorp.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002DDE60.20010401131018@fatcity.com>

Helmut,

        Make sure you have run dbmsrand.sql as sys. This installs the dbms_random package

First you seed the random package.

exec dbms_random.seed(99991)

Then

select dbms_random.random from dual;

    RANDOM

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exec DBMS_RANDOM.TERMINATE;

RTFM Reference (Oracle8i Supplied PL/SQL Packages Reference)

HTH, Scott Crabtree

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi!

Is there a function in Oracle that returns a random number, when it's called?

e.g. rnd (1,1000) should return a random number between 1 and 1000.

This is 8.1.6 on Win2k.

Thanks,
Helmut

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