I'm working on a project that requires back-end service. I am using MySQL and php scripts to achieve communication with server side. I would like to add a new feature on the back-end and that is the ability to generate automatically a table with 3 'lucky' members from a table_members every day. In other words, I would like MySQL to pick 3 random rows from a table and add these rows to another table (if is possible). I understand that, I can achieve this if manually call RAND() function on that table but ... will be painful!
There is any way to achieve the above?
UPDATE:
Here is my solution on this after comments/suggestions from other users
CREATE EVENT `draw` ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 DAY STARTS '2013-02-13 10:00:00' ON COMPLETION NOT PRESERVE ENABLE DO
INSERT INTO tbl_lucky(`field_1`)
SELECT u_name
FROM tbl_members
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 3
I hope this is helpful and to others.