Re: Inserting Multiple Random Rows

On 4/28/2010 1:48 PM, Gary Chambers wrote:
> pen?
>
> The clouds parting, choirs of angels singing, and fireworks
> celebrating the veil of my obtuseness being lifted, and my grasp and
> command of SQL to be complete and infinite. None of which appears
> will ever happen...
>
> -- Gary Chambers
>
> /* Nothing fancy and nothing Microsoft! */
>
>
You now what *_might _*work

Insert into useraddrs(userid, addrdesc, city, stprov)
select u.userid, 'Home', c.cityname, c.stateabbr FROM users u, cities c
WHERE u.userid NOT IN (SELECT userid FROM useraddrs)
and cid IN (select round(random()*10000)::int as num from
generate_series(1,100000)) rand )

As you don't care if a record repeats

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