Question

Hi i’m trying to get some random results ordered by the location ASC.

This is my query:

SELECT `location`, `route`
FROM (`foo`)
WHERE `location` != ''
ORDER BY  RAND(), `location` ASC
LIMIT 8 

the problem is that it gets randomly but doesn’t orders then by “location” ASC, also if i do this:

SELECT `location`, `route`
FROM (`foo`)
WHERE `location` != ''
ORDER BY  `location` ASC,RAND()
LIMIT 8 

it doesn’t gets randomly.

How can i get both togheter RAND() and ORDER BY location ASC ?

Answer 1

You need nested statements/queries:

SELECT *
FROM (
    SELECT `location`, `route`
    FROM `foo`
    WHERE `location` != ''
    ORDER BY RAND()
    LIMIT 8) AS `temp`
ORDER BY `location` ASC;