RAND() In WHERE clause in MYSQL

Question

I\'ve found this Blog post that shows a way to grab a random rows from a table : http://www.rndblog.com/how-to-select-random-rows-in-mysql/

I used it in a heavy delete q

Answer 1

This is an example to use clause WHERE with RAND in mySQL:

SELECT * FROM t1
WHERE status = 1
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 2;