On Tuesday 07 May 2002 20:52, andy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> is it possible to get mysql to return a record out of a table on a random
> basis?
>
> I tryed:
>
> select rand() ID, city
> from data.cities
> where country = 'CA'
> LIMIT 1
>
> but does not work though. Has anybody an idea? I tryed also to read all
> results and do the random thing with php, but this does take forever (doing
> it for a couple of times)
Try (won't work on older versions of mysql)
SELECT something, or_another FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;
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