I recently came across a problem where I had to update hundreds of client records with a random 4 digit PIN code. After some research, I wrote the following SQL which did the trick.
It will update all records on the table: table_name and set a random 4 digit PIN between 1,000 and 9,999 on the column `column_pin`.
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_pin` = FLOOR( 1000 + ( RAND( ) *8999 ) ) ;
I hope this was helpful to you.
