Re: Is there a good way of retrieving entries randomly from a database (MySQL perhaps)?

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You can select any number of random rows by limiting the results of your query:

SELECT question, answer FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1
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It'll be much faster and more efficient than pushing all the results into an array and dumping them into a temporary table. That seems like too much work for the task you described, unless there's a good reason for the temp table.

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perl -MO=Deparse -e"u j t S n a t o e h r , e p l r a h k c r e"

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