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I am new to mysql and would appreciate someone helping me out with this
converting this statement from postgresql to mysql.

INSERT INTO ossurjoinquesti ons SELECT *, RANDOM() as random_sort,
trunc(114435546 0, 0) as instanceid FROM ossurcommonques tions WHERE tid =
'3';

So far I have

INSERT INTO ossurjoinquesti ons( tid, question, ans1, ans2, ans3, ans4, ans5,
corans, image_path, random_sort, instanceid )
SELECT tid, question, ans1, ans2, ans3, ans4, ans5, corans, image_path
FROM ossurcommonques tions
WHERE tid = '3'

What I am not sure how to do is add RAND() as random_sort or trunc($var,0)
as instanceid.

Thank you for any help.
Apr 6 '06 #1
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lifesciencemedi a wrote:
What I am not sure how to do is add RAND() as random_sort or trunc($var,0)
as instanceid.


RAND() is the MySQL equivalent of PostgreSQL's RANDOM() function.
TRUNCATE() is the MySQL equivalent of PostgreSQL's TRUNC() function.

See the documentation on the respective web sites:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/i...ions-math.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...functions.html

Regards,
Bill K.
Apr 7 '06 #2

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