Question

I’d like to generate size N set of random numbers in Sqlite.

Right now the best I’ve got is to union a set of calls to random() like this

create view random_view as
select random()
union select random()
union select random()
union select random()
union select random()
;

Maybe someone has a more clever solution that could generate N numbers?

Answer 1

Didn’t try, but maybe this? Given any table of at least N rows,

SELECT RANDOM() FROM anytable LIMIT ?

replacing ? with N.