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Old 06-01-2005, 01:27 AM Getting a random MySQL value...
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I'm trying to make a script that generates a random ID and uses that to fetch that specified line in the MySQL database, so that it can display that message (basically, a random "quote" generator).

What is the easiest way of going about this?
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Old 06-01-2005, 02:23 AM
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select * from mytable order by rand() limit 1;

Please notice that this query cannot be optimized and will become slow if a table contains too many rows (more than 10K).
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