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Re: Re: Re: Is there a good way of retrieving entries randomly from a database (MySQL perhaps)?by sgifford (Prior) |
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MySQL may repeat results if you do repeated queries with ORDER BY rand LIMIT 1. But it won't if you ask for all 10 questions at once---ORDER BY rand LIMIT 10. You may have to issue one query per subject, but so what? Unless there are dozens of subjects, the speed difference won't be noticeable.
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