> In a slight change of this question (since I have no data to
> currently test this with, as my ISP is using too old a
> version of mysql), does anyone know what something like
> this would do?
>
> SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND(), date LIMIT 5;
Exactly the same as SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5; would
do, since RAND() returns a different value for each row, and the date column
would only be sorted in the event of duplicates in the previous order
expression.
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