I wanted to be able to randomly select rows from a table in a way that scales up to large tables in MySQL. As I understand it now that really isn’t possible. Are there any other databases that I could do this with?
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I wanted to be able to randomly select rows from a table in a way that scales up to large tables in MySQL. As I understand it now that really isn’t possible. Are there any other databases that I could do this with?
Does this type of selection need to be made with SQL? If not, you could generate a random number in code and then get a related record by the generated number. Of course that is making a few assumptions: