I want to display two records.
For eg
select * FROM users WHERE user_id = 5
.
Now i want another row randomly selected from users table but with user_id != 5
Is it possible to do in a single query. I tried using union all but i dnt get two distinct rows.
Thanks
This works fine for me. The first result is always the record with ID 5, the second row is a random one. Note that if no record with the ID 5 exists, both rows will be random.
SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY (user_id = 5) DESC, RAND() LIMIT 0,2
Try this
SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id = 5 || user_id != 5 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 2
Union should do the trick. You probably forgot LIMIT
.
(SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id = 5 LIMIT 1)
UNION
(SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id != 5 LIMIT 1)
Try this:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=5
union all (
SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id!=5
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1)