I am recently got stuck upon a simple problem in Teradata: how to get random number between a pair of number coming from field/column?
The function RANDOM( lower_bound , upper_bound ) apparently is restricted to only accept fix number rather than field / column name.
--THIS ONE FAILS:
WITH TRIAL(CATEGORY, VAL_MIN, VAL_MAX) AS (
SELECT 'A', 0, 3 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'B', 1, 9 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'C', 2, 5 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'D', 1, 12 FROM CTE
), CTE(DUMMY) AS (SELECT 'X')
SELECT T.*,
RANDOM(T.VAL_MIN, T.VAL_MIN) --HERE'S THE PROBLEM
FROM TRIAL T;
--THIS ONE WORKS:
WITH TRIAL(CATEGORY, VAL_MIN, VAL_MAX) AS (
SELECT 'A', 0, 3 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'B', 1, 9 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'C', 2, 5 FROM CTE UNION ALL
SELECT 'D', 1, 12 FROM CTE
), CTE(DUMMY) AS (SELECT 'X')
SELECT T.*,
RANDOM(1, 7) --HERE'S THE PROBLEM
FROM TRIAL T;
I'm pretty sure there's simple solution for this. Greatly appreciate any help.