MySQL get a random value between two values

Question

I have two columns in a row: min_value, max_value. Is there a way to do a select like:

SELECT RAND(`min_v`, `max_v`) `foo` [..]
         


        

Answer 1

in case minimum range is 1, you can simply

SELECT FLOOR((RAND() * max_range) + 1)

in case minimum range is 0, you can even more simply

SELECT FLOOR((RAND() * max_range))