select ....
LIMIT 50;

mathias

Selon Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I am using a routine to find 50 random records in a large MySQL
> database (about a million records) where I generate a list of 50
> random unique ID's, and then use MySQL's "in" command to find them. I
> can't use "order by rand()" due to its performance hit.
>
> But I have to take it one more step: I want to first limit my found
> set to those matching a different search criteria, and then find 50
> of those.
>
> Anyone? Can this be done all within MySQL, or is it going to require
> some humongo PHP arrays?
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