mysql unique number generation

Question

I want to generate a unique random integer (from 10000 to 99999) identity just by clean mySQL; any ideas?

I don\'t want to generate this number in php by cycling (ge

Answer 1

I worry about why you want to do this, but you could simply use:

SELECT FLOOR(RAND() * 1000000);

See the full MySQL RAND documentation for more information.

However, I hope you're not using this as a unique identifier (use an auto_increment attribute on a suitably large unsigned integer field if this is what you're after) and I have to wonder why you'd use MySQL for this and not a scripting language. What are you trying to achieve?