Can anyone help? We have so much talent here and we cannot figure out one random select? All I need is to get 5 random jokes from a different author....

OK,

You are both somewhat right, I celebrated too early because I got no error when I used that query. The problem is that even if I use the ORDER BY...

Thanks to all for the help. I was able to make it work based on the help I got here. I just made some small changes.

Thanks again for the help.

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I did try but it didnt work.

I got an error "No column was specified for column 6 of 'a'."

Thanks for your time

J.