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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:26:16 +0200
From: Christoph Frick <frick@sc-networks.com>
To: Felix Zhang <felix.zhang.2005@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [NOVICE] How to split a table?
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:39:21PM +0800, Felix Zhang wrote:

> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60%
> records which are randomly selected from the source table.  How to do
> it?

i do my A/B-Group splitting usually by &1 the serial of the table.
assuming, that there are no irregularities in the process of creating
your entries, this should give a 50/50 split, which is reuseable for
future things and there never is a intersection of the two groups.

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