Re: Retrieve item from table at random
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:22:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Retrieve item from table at random | ||
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:28, enthalpy wrote:
> anyone have example code for randomly grabing an item from a mysql table?
>
Mysql 3.23 will let you order by RAND() and you could use a LIMIT to
restrict to one result. I haven't tried it, though.
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