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kellan http://laughingmeme.org

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Simple query to select N random rows

A very simple, if not particularly portable or fast, quest for selecting a set of random rows from MySQL.
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   2  SELECT * from my_table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 25

I use this a lot when testing.
to sql random mysql by kellan on Apr 08, 2005
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