I have a script that has a GET variable: $_GET['percentage']
I have a MySQL table of data.
Now lets say that there are 100 rows of data in this table.
In pseudo-code:
SELECT data FROM table
Now would it be possible to select $_GET['percentage']
of random data from table?
For example (again in pseudo-code):
$_GET['percentage'] = 10;
SELECT 10% of data from table order by rand()
If this IS possible, how could I do it?
In MySQL, it's probably easiest to do this in two queries. First, get the count of rows in the table:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM MyTable;
Then prepare the query to get random rows:
SELECT ... FROM MyTable ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT ?;
Then execute the prepared query and send the value of the count divided by 10.
Not every problem needs to be solved by a single query.
Here's an example PHP script, edited to use the old mysql extension.
<?php
// Get the total number of rows in the table.
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Kingdoms";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$rows_in_table = $row[0];
// We only want a portion of the rows, specified by the user
// choice of percentage. The count we want is therefore equal
// to the total number of rows in the table multiplied by the
// desired percentage.
$percentage = intval($_GET["percentage"]) / 100.0;
$count = intval(round($rows_in_table * $percentage));
// LIMIT makes the query return at most the number of rows specified.
// Sort randomly first (if the table has too many rows this will be slow),
// then return the first $count rows.
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Kingdoms ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT {$count}";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
print_r($row);
}
PS: Always be careful when interpolating a variable into an SQL expression. You should force the variable to a known format -- an integer value in this case. Otherwise you risk creating an SQL Injection vulnerability.
If you have auto incremented ID field you may use
HAVING ID_FIELD<=ceil(count(*)*10/100);
Otherwise a stored procedure can help in this.
select columnvalue from mytable WHERE RAND() <= 0.5 .....will directly result in very near to 50% of the records
May be this event rise the solution
drop event OEAuditEvent;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE EVENT OEAuditEvent
ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 SECOND
STARTS '2012-09-05 09:00:00'
DO
BEGIN
DECLARE a CHAR(20);
DECLARE b,c,d INT;
DECLARE done INT DEFAULT FALSE;
IF CURRENT_TIME() = '23:40:00' THEN
begin
DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR select OE_User,count(OE_User) from RNCM_Status where date(OE_Date)=CURDATE() group by OE_User;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = TRUE;
OPEN cur;
read_loop: LOOP
FETCH cur INTO a, b;
SET c=ceil((b*5)/100);
IF done THEN
LEAVE read_loop;
ELSE
insert into OE_Audit(MDN,CAF,UploadedDate,OEUser,OEDate,UserCount,QCCount,intime) select MDN,CAF,UploadedDate,OE_User,OE_Date,b,c,now() from RNCM_Status where OE_User=a and date(OE_Date)=CURDATE() order by rand() limit c;
END IF;
END LOOP;
CLOSE cur;
end ;
END IF;
END $$
DELIMITER ;