Retrieving Random Documents from a Collection
TLDR Alexander asked for ways to retrieve random documents from a collection. Jason advised using a random integer field in all records, and filtering using a random numeric range to get the documents.
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Apr 06, 2022 (21 months ago)
Alexander
04:53 PM
Jason
04:56 PMAlexander
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04:58 PMJason
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