MySQL select 10 random rows from 600K rows fast

Question

How can I best write a query that selects 10 rows randomly from a total of 600k?

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

select * 
from table_with_600k_rows
where rand() < 10/600000
limit 10

I like it because does not require other tables, it is simple to write, and it is very fast to execute.