Question

My table has many row that have a same column. I’ll call the column “likes”. If I use “order by likes”, then the rows with the same “likes” will be ordered by the time they were added to the database.
I want all rows with the same “likes” to be sorted randomly. I tried “ORDER BY likes, rand()”, but everything is being sorted randomly.
How can I do this?

Answer 1

I suggest you check again. Adding the clause order by something, rand() to one of my queries acts exactly as you would expect, with the only randomising happening within a something group.

Just be aware that using rand() in an order by clause will not scale very well as your table gets bigger.