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display 5 random records in access.. keeping it simple!

Asked by cookiejest in Active Server Pages (ASP)

Tags: random, records

Ok i want nothing special. Just the simplest way.

I want to display five random records from a table in my database called tblLinkinfo, i dont want any of the five to be repeated. Its a pretty straight forward idea.

I am new to asp so i would be chuffed if somebody could explain how to do it in as simple form as possible!

Here is my code at the moment:

'Dimension variables
Dim adoCon 'Holds the Database Connection Object
Dim rsGuestbook 'Holds the recordset for the records in the database
Dim strSQL 'Holds the SQL query to query the database

'Create an ADO connection object
Set adoCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

'Set an active connection to the Connection object using a DSN-less connection
adoCon.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("../database/cookiejestdb.mdb")

'Create an ADO recordset object
Set rsGuestbook = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

'Initialise the strSQL variable with an SQL statement to query the database
strSQL = ""

'Open the recordset with the SQL query
rsGuestbook.Open strSQL, adoCon

'Loop through the recordset
Do While not rsGuestbook.EOF

'Write the HTML to display the current record in the recordset

Response.Write("<table width=""0"" border=""0"" cellspacing=""0"" cellpadding=""3"">")
Response.Write("<tr>")
Response.Write("<td width=""58""><a href=""http://"& rsguestbook("URL") &"""><img src=""linkimages/"& rsguestbook("File_Name") &""" width=""88"" height=""31"" border=""0""></a></td>")
Response.Write("<td width=""340"">"& rsguestbook("Link_Description")&"</td>")
Response.Write("</tr>")
Response.Write("</table>")
Response.Write("<br>")

'Move to the next record in the recordset
rsGuestbook.MoveNext

Loop

'Reset server objects
rsGuestbook.Close
Set rsGuestbook = Nothing
Set adoCon = Nothing
%>

Thanks everybody!

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display 5 random records in access.. keeping it simple!

Asked by cookiejest in Active Server Pages (ASP)

Tags: random, records

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