I'm just curious if any of the more awake coders out there can see a way to optimize this for better performance, since there's several other DB queries on the same page.
$records = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM persons") or die('Unable to get record count<br>'.mysql_error());
$totalcount = mysql_result($records,0) - 1;
$rndrecord = rand(0,$totalcount);
$personquery = mysql_query("SELECT personID FROM persons LIMIT $rndrecord,1") or die('Unable to get random record<br>'.mysql_error());
$personID = mysql_result($personquery,0);
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