Randomly Select Column Value from Database

This function randomly selects a value from a specified column in a database table. It first executes an SQL query using a PyMySQL cursor object, then fetches the first value from the query results and returns it. If there are no results, it returns None.

Technology Stack : PyMySQL

Code Type : Database Query Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def select_random_column(db_connection, table_name, column_name):
    cursor = db_connection.cursor()
    cursor.execute(f"SELECT {column_name} FROM {table_name} ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1")
    result = cursor.fetchone()
    cursor.close()
    return result[0] if result else None