How to select random rows from a table?
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Using the RAND() function in combination with ORDER BY and LIMIT. In some SQL flavors, such as PostgreSQL, it’s called RANDOM(). For example, the following code will return five random rows from a table in MySQL:
SELECT * FROM table_name
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 5;