note 103169 added to function.rand
| From: | weenadelic at hotmail dot com | Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:10:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 103169 added to function.rand | ||
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@Jesse
Why not just use
"SELECT * FROM table order by rand() LIMIT 1"
Unless the dataset contains millions of rows, it is still pretty efficient.
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