SQL ORDER BY RANDOM

If you want the resulting record to be ordered randomly, you should use the following codes according to several databases.

Here a question occurs that what is the need of fetching a random record or a row from a database?

Sometimes you may want to display random information like articles, links, pages etc. to your user.

If you want to fetch random rows from any of the databases you have to use some queries which are altered according to the databases.

Select a random row with MySQL:

If you want to return a random row with MY SQL, Use the following code:

SELECT column FROM table
ORDER BY RAND ()
LIMIT 1

SELECT column FROM table 
ORDER BY RANDOM ()
LIMIT 1

SELECT TOP 1 column FROM table
ORDER BY NEWID ()

SELECT column FROM 
(SELECT column FROM table
ORDER BY dbms_random.value)
WHERE rownum = 1

SELECT column RAND () as IDX
FROM table 
ORDER BY  IDX FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY