Question

How do I randomly select 5% rows of each userid column using MySQL?

That is, mytable contains userid column, and I want to randomly check each user’s 5% of entered rows. So the query should return 5% of each user’s rows.

Answer 1

I got the solution by using Events:

drop event OEAuditEvent;

DELIMITER $$

CREATE EVENT OEAuditEvent
ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 SECOND
STARTS '2012-09-05 09:00:00'

DO
BEGIN

  DECLARE a CHAR(20);
  DECLARE b,c,d INT;
  DECLARE done INT DEFAULT FALSE;

  IF CURRENT_TIME() = '23:40:00' THEN
begin

 DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR select OE_User,count(OE_User) from RNCM_Status where     date(OE_Date)=CURDATE() group by OE_User;
 DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = TRUE;

 OPEN cur;
 read_loop: LOOP


 FETCH cur INTO a, b;

SET c=ceil((b*5)/100);

IF done THEN

          LEAVE read_loop;
ELSE
          insert into OE_Audit(MDN,CAF,UploadedDate,OEUser,OEDate,UserCount,QCCount,intime) select MDN,CAF,UploadedDate,OE_User,OE_Date,b,c,now() from RNCM_Status where OE_User=a and date(OE_Date)=CURDATE() order by rand() limit c;
    END IF;

 END LOOP;
  CLOSE cur;
 end ;
 END IF;

END $$

DELIMITER ;