December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
PROCEDURE DBMS_RANDOM.INITIALIZE
(seed IN BINARY_INTEGER);
Initializes the random number generator with the value of seed, which should be at least five digits in length.
FUNCTION DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM
RETURN BINARY_INTEGER;
Returns a random integer value from the random number generator.
PROCEDURE DBMS_RANDOM.SEED
(seed IN BINARY_INTEGER);
Changes the random number generator’s seed value to seed, which should be at least five digits in length.
PROCEDURE DBMS_RANDOM.TERMINATE;
Releases resources used by the random number generator when no longer needed.