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Querying for random record

I was wondering if there is a standard way for querying for a random record.

Some ways I have thought about achieving this:
- Counting number of records and generating a number between 0 - n (falls over on deleted records and relies on a lengthy count call)
- Creating indexes that reoorder and then query the indexes.
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