Comments on: Select a random record.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:54:15 +0000

THe reason the author did it this way is because its the fastest performance wise. You are right in stating that order by rand() is more compact when speaking about code but this example is all about speed now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:40:51 +0000

select … order by rand()

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:29:01 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

Just a little bit easier:

SELECT cat, dog
FROM foo
ORDER BY random()
LIMIT 1;

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:12:51 +0000

select …. order by random() limit 1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:05:49 +0000

Just a little bit easier:

SELECT cat, dog
FROM foo
ORDER BY random()
LIMIT 1;