?? SELECT * FROM table WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM table ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT x)
Maybe. It is more memory efficient then trying to sort the entire lot of data. On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:13 PM Torsten Curdt <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to get some random rows from a large(ish) table. > > The following seems to be the most straight forward - but not the fastest. > > SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY random() limit 200 > > Is there a faster/better approach? > > cheers, > Torsten > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
