Thread: How to split a table?

Felix Zhang <felix.zhang.2005@gmail.com> schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records
> which are randomly selected from the source table.
> How to do it?

Why do you want to do this?


Andreas
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Perhaps something like:

CREATE TABLE foo2 AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE (rand() <= 0.60);

?

HTH,

Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC


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Felix Zhang <felix.zhang.2005@gmail.com> schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records
> which are randomly selected from the source table.
> How to do it?

Why do you want to do this?


Andreas
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:39:21PM +0800, Felix Zhang wrote:

> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60%
> records which are randomly selected from the source table.  How to do
> it?

i do my A/B-Group splitting usually by &1 the serial of the table.
assuming, that there are no irregularities in the process of creating
your entries, this should give a 50/50 split, which is reuseable for
future things and there never is a intersection of the two groups.

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