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  • October 21, 2014 at 10:10 pm

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    ChrisM@Work (10/21/2014)

    Wouldn't it be easier and more natural to refactor this as a function?

    I agree but to return a random number, you'd probably want to use a GUID as the random seed. I'm pretty sure than NEWID() still isn't allowed in a function in 2012 but you could always use the "VIEW" trick to get a GUID.

    --Jeff Moden

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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