Re: randomized order in select?

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:02 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> You can but it won't be very efficient (for large tables) as it will generate
> a random ordering for the whole table, probably do a sort and then return the
> first record.  The only thing different you need to do is add () after random:
> select tiptext from tips order by random() limit 1

Thanks. The whole table consists of about 100 rows and I don't think it
will grow by, even twice. So this fits my needs just well.
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