On Feb 20, 2011, at 2:19 PM, galago wrote:
> What is the best way, to select X random rows from DB? I know that method:
> .all().order_by('?')[:X] is not good idea.
The best way is to push it onto the DB, using a raw query:
random_results = Table.objects.raw("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY
random() LIMIT X")
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