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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, ClickHouse, DB2, Databricks, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, 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 */
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