DB2 Random Row Selection

Posted Wed, 14 Sep 2005

Pete posted earlier about selecting a single random row from various different types of database. I just wanted to follow up with the query to do this in IBM's DB2 (tested on 8.2)

SELECT * FROM <table> 
ORDER BY RAND() FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY

Related Books

Modern Database Management (9th Edition) Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Eighth Edition Fundamentals of Database Systems (5th Edition) Database Management Systems Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Seventh Edition

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