I have a table that I added a column called phone
- the table also has an id set as a primary key that auto_increments. How can I insert a random value into the phone column, that won't be duplicated. The following UPDATE statement did insert random values, but not all of them unique. Also, I'm not sold I cast the phone
field correctly either, but ran into issues when trying to set it as a int(11) w/ the ALTER TABLE command (mainly, it ran correctly, but when adding a row with a new phone number, the inserted value was translated into a different number).
UPDATE Ballot SET phone = FLOOR(50000000 * RAND()) + 1;
Table spec's
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | phone | varchar(11) | NO | | NULL | | | age | tinyint(3) | NO | | NULL | | | test | tinyint(4) | NO | | 0 | | | note | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | | +------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
-- tbl_name: Table
-- column_name: Column
-- chars_str: String containing acceptable characters
-- n: Length of the random string
-- dummy_tbl: Not a parameter, leave as is!
UPDATE tbl_name SET column_name = (
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(SUBSTRING(chars_str , 1+ FLOOR(RAND()*LENGTH(chars_str)) ,1) SEPARATOR '')
FROM (SELECT 1 /* UNION SELECT 2 ... UNION SELECT n */) AS dummy_tbl
);
-- Example
UPDATE tickets SET code = (
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(SUBSTRING('123abcABC-_$@' , 1+ FLOOR(RAND()*LENGTH('123abcABC-_$@')) ,1) SEPARATOR '')
FROM (SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 UNION SELECT 3 UNION SELECT 4 UNION SELECT 5) AS dummy_tbl
);