Re: Select Single Random Record

Oleg Broytman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.sqlobject
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:30:10PM -0400, Adam Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the best way to select a single random record from a table and
> falls within the "where" criteria i have defined? I don't want to return a
> huge result set each time and then pick a random one

   Please define "random" in the context of your task. Do you want a
different record every time? Or some non-deterministic record that could
be the same every time is a possible solution?

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            [email protected]
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