From: Paul DuBois Date: 2003-06-27T01:16:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Inconsistent rand() results with MySQL Ruby (long) At 5:26 +0900 6/26/03, Dave Dembinski wrote: [summary: ORDER BY RAND() * 10 doesn't seem very random] What's your version of MySQL? A change was made in 3.23.56 to intialize the randomizer better.