RE: Generate RANDOM number

  • From: "Mercadante, Thomas F" <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:37:22 -0500

Jared,

This is immensely cool.  Can we get a link to the resulting seed value for
all of our calls to SYS.DBMS_RANDOM?

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Muqthar Ahmed [mailto:Muqthar.Ahmed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:29 AM
To: 'Ruth Gramolini'; jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; mwf@xxxxxxxx
Cc: ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Generate RANDOM number

Hi,

In 10g, it is called DBMS_CRYPTO, where as in Oracle9i, it is
DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT.  The differences are:

=================================================
=============================       ==========================
Package Feature                                          DBMS_CRYPTO
DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT
=================================================
=============================       ==========================
Cryptographic pseudo-random number generator             RAW, NUMBER,
BINARY_INTEGER         RAW, VARCHAR2


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: RE: Generate RANDOM number


Even if it doesn't fit his needs, it is imensely cool.  RBG

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Generate RANDOM number


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:12:37 -0500, Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You asked what is wrong with his select.
> 
> Probably he is seeking information regarding the quality of the pseudo
> random sequence that is generated.

Might this work?

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010512/mathtrek.asp

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