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jcb267
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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 Posted - 2012-08-01 : 12:00:26
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Hi - I have a table with 471 records. I would like to select 30 from that table randomly. Will this do that?select top 30 siteid into randomsites from tempsites order by newid()If not, how can I accomplish a random selection?Thanks!!JB  |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-08-01 : 12:03:08
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| yep...the given statement should do that------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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Transact Charlie
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3451 Posts |
Posted - 2012-08-01 : 12:03:58
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yeah -- that's about the best you can do to get a random selectionTransact CharlieMsg 3903.. The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION. http://nosqlsolution.blogspot.co.uk/ |
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jcb267
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
291 Posts |
Posted - 2012-08-01 : 12:12:21
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| Excellant! Thankyou Vikash and Transact Charlie!!JB |
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Random Record selection