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Mysql - Subqueries and Joins

I'm not quite sure if this is the right approach, this is my situation:

I am currently trying to select 15 galleries and then join it using the user table through the id, but I also want to select one random image from each gallery, however from the fact that, as I know, you cannot limit the left connection ( picture) to get only one random image without performing a subquery.

Here is what I got so far, but did not work as it should:

SELECT galleries.id, galleries.name, users.username, pictures.url 
FROM galleries 
LEFT JOIN users ON users.id = galleries.user_id 
LEFT JOIN pictures ON (
    SELECT pictures.url 
    FROM pictures 
    WHERE pictures.gallery_id = galleries.id 
    ORDER BY RAND() 
    LIMIT 1) 
WHERE active = 1 
ORDER BY RAND() 
LIMIT 15

I also tried to do this using Active Recording , but I got stuck after two left joins, is it possible to get a subquery here:

$this->db->select('galleries.id, galleries.name, users.id as user_id, users.username');
$this->db->from('galleries');
$this->db->join('users', 'users.id = galleries.user_id','left');
$this->db->join('pictures','pictures.gallery_id = galleries.id AND','left');
$this->db->where('active',1);

I hope this will not be messy, but I'm really starting to get confused in all sql queries.

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select 
    g.name, u.username,
    (select url from pictures p where p.gallery_id = g.gallery_id 
     order by rand() limit 1) as url
from galleries g
left join users u on g.user_id = u.id
where g.active = 1

. , .

select 
    g.name, u.username, p.url, p.name
from (
    select id, user_id, name,
        (select id from pictures p 
         where p.gallery_id = g.gallery_id 
         order by rand() limit 1) as samplepictureid
    from galleries
    where g.active = 1
) g
left join users u on g.user_id = u.id
left join pictures p on p.id = g.samplepictureid
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SELECT
    g.id,
    g.name,
    u.username,
    p.url
FROM
    galleries g
    INNER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT
         gallery_id,
         (SELECT url FROM pictures ss WHERE ss.gallery_id = s.gallery_id 
             ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1) AS url
     FROM
         pictures s) p ON
        g.id = p.gallery_id
    LEFT OUTER JOIN users u ON
        g.user_id = u.id
WHERE
    g.active = 1

, ( , INNER JOIN LEFT OUTER JOIN, ). . , , , (hoorah!). WHERE (.- WHERE u.id = 123). , . , INNER JOIN .

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