Re: How to find random records in a subset?

From: Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:04:22 +0000
Subject: Re: How to find random records in a subset?
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On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
Brian Dunning wrote:
I am using a routine to find 50 random records in a large MySQL database (about a million records) where I generate a list of 50 random unique ID's,
why can't you use the where condition in the above query?
Because I wouldn't get all 50 records that I need - I'd only get the few out of the 50 that happened to be in the needed subset.

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