Optimizing my mysql statement! - RAND() TOO SLOW

Question

So I have a table with over 80,000 records, this one is called system. I also have another table called follows.

I need my statement to randomly select records from

Answer 1

I am not sure there is a simple solution to replace your query, here is an article on correcting this type of issue.

http://www.titov.net/2005/09/21/do-not-use-order-by-rand-or-how-to-get-random-rows-from-table/