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Pull random records from database

Hi.

I am doing an "Online Quiz" in VB6 as my mini project as a part of my academics.
I have almost done with the project. Please help me on how to randomly select questions from the database (MS Access).
Oct 3 '07 #1
1 2009
Killer42
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... Please help me on how to randomly select questions from the database (MS Access)
Probably the easiest thing would be to load them all into an array, then just use a random number generator to randomly index the array.
Oct 3 '07 #2

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