Re: [SQL] How to split a table?

Perhaps something like:

CREATE TABLE foo2 AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE (rand() <= 0.60);

?

HTH,

Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC

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Subject: Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] How to split a table?

Felix Zhang <felix(dot)zhang(dot)2005(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records
> which are randomly selected from the source table.
> How to do it?

Why do you want to do this?

Andreas
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