[development] Drupal 7 Entities - view random node

[nan wich]

Larry, I am curious. Being that you are a database guru, this fits in with an 
issue for my Quotes module, as does the original post. [BTW, Blaine, rather than 
write you own, you might want to look at Quotes.]

One of the users who has an unusual number of quotes (~12K) says that ORDER 
RANDOM LIMIT 1 is not very efficient and gets fairly slow at that size. There 
are discussions elsewhere on the web to back up that assertion.

Do you find that to be true? Do you have a simpler way around it than keeping a 
separate index of the applicable nodes?
 
Nancy
 
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From: Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
To: development at drupal.org
Sent: Sun, January 23, 2011 7:41:34 PM
Subject: Re: [development] Drupal 7 Entities - view random node

I did that all the time in Drupal 6 using Views.  It's dead simple.  (Order 
random limit 1, done.)  I haven't tried doing it in Drupal 7, but I'm sure the 
same method still works.

--Larry Garfield

On Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:33:34 pm Blaine Lang wrote:
> I have a need for a block that will display a random quote. Node type =
> 'random_quote' and only 1 random record should be displayed
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