Top "Random-access" questions

Random access is the possibility of accessing any given record in a collection in the same time in contrast to sequential access in which distant records take longer to access than nearby records.

SQLite - ORDER BY RAND()

In MySQL I can use the RAND() function, is there any alternative in SQLite 3?

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Edit/Modify & Delete of record from a Random Access File in C

The program should modify or delete a specific record according to employee id, in modifying part it writes the modified …

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Why does Collections.shuffle() fail for my array?

Why does my code not work? package generatingInitialPopulation; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Collections; public class TestShuffle { public …

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Buffered RandomAccessFile java

RandomAccessFile is quite slow for random access to a file. You often read about implementing a buffered layer over it, …

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compilation error: request for member in something not a structure or union

Edit: The code below has been modified to work as the problem has been solved. Specifically, (*hardwareList.next_item)-&…

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Compression formats with good support for random access within archives?

This is similar to a previous question, but the answers there don't satisfy my needs and my question is slightly …

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Java: reading strings from a random access file with buffered input

I've never had close experiences with Java IO API before and I'm really frustrated now. I find it hard to …

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.NET C# - Random access in text files - no easy way?

I've got a text file that contains several 'records' inside of it. Each record contains a name and a collection …

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Python Random Access File

Is there a Python file type for accessing random lines without traversing the whole file? I need to search within …

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c++ list random access

Possible Duplicate: How to get a certain element in a list, given the position? so in python you can get …

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