[jira] [Updated] (HIVE-1301) RAND() should be RAND_UNIF(); also, we should create RAND_NORM() and add options

["Carl Steinbach (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-1301:
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    Component/s: UDF

> RAND() should be RAND_UNIF(); also, we should create RAND_NORM() and add options
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>                 Key: HIVE-1301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1301
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: UDF
>            Reporter: Adam Kramer
>            Assignee: Paul Yang
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> The generation of pseudorandom data is very useful, but would be even MORE useful if we had a few levers to pull.
> Currently, RAND() generates a random number pulled from a uniform distribution between 0 and 1. It would be great if we could user-specify the min and max because that is a more elegant way to write code: RAND()*200+50 will generate the same thing as RAND_UNIF(min=50,max=250) but the latter is a much better way to express this in a readable manner.
> Similarly, it would be useful to have non-uniform random data for statistical purposes. RAND_NORM(mean=0,sd=1) 

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