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RAND
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The RAND() function produces a random number.
SELECT rand();
create.select(rand()).fetch();
The result being
+------+ | rand | +------+ | 4 | chosen by fair dice roll +------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
rand()
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS rnd -- ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, BIGQUERY, DB2, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, -- SYBASE, TRINO rand() -- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SQLITE, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB random() -- ORACLE DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM -- TERADATA (CAST((random(-2147483648, 2147483647) + 2147483648) AS NUMERIC(38, 19)) / 4294967295) -- INFORMIX, SNOWFLAKE /* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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