How to get records randomly from the oracle database?
SELECT * FROM table SAMPLE(10) WHERE ROWNUM <= 20;
This is more efficient as it doesn't need to sort the Table.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM table
ORDER BY DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM)
WHERE rownum < 21;
SAMPLE() is not guaranteed to give you exactly 20 rows, but might be suitable (and may perform significantly better than a full query + sort-by-random for large tables):
SELECT *
FROM table SAMPLE(20);
Note: the 20
here is an approximate percentage, not the number of rows desired. In this case, since you have 100 rows, to get approximately 20 rows you ask for a 20% sample.