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wafw1971

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:18 AM

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I have an arrival date already in the system and I need to populate the Booking date using a random function, the booking date can be any day on or before the arrival date up to a maximum 90 days previous but it must be random the booking date cannot all be the same date.

I thought I cracked it but was wrong. Can you help?

SELECT ArrivalDate, DATEADD(day, -1 + RAND(checksum(NEWID()))-90
, ArrivalDate) AS BookingDate
FROM Bookings
ORDER BY ArrivalDate

Thanks

Wayne

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wafw1971

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:30 AM

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Its alright I have figured it out:

SELECT ArrivalDate, DATEADD(day, -1 + RAND(checksum(NEWID()))*-90
, ArrivalDate) AS BookingDate
FROM Bookings
ORDER BY ArrivalDate

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ChrisM@Work

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:46 AM

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wafw1971 (2/20/2013)

Its alright I have figured it out:

...

DwainC already figured it out for you:

SELECT 
	ArrivalDate, 
	BookingDate = DATEADD(day, 
		-(1 + ABS(checksum(NEWID())) % 90),
		ArrivalDate)  
FROM Bookings
ORDER BY ArrivalDate

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dwain.c

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:59 PM

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ChrisM@Work (2/20/2013)

wafw1971 (2/20/2013)

Its alright I have figured it out:

...

DwainC already figured it out for you:

SELECT 
	ArrivalDate, 
	BookingDate = DATEADD(day, 
		-(1 + ABS(checksum(NEWID())) % 90),
		ArrivalDate)  
FROM Bookings
ORDER BY ArrivalDate

I thought this looks familiar. But in the other thread his boss has taken it to the next level. Tongue

No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh!

INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?

Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some!
Are you too recursively challenged?
Splitting strings based on patterns can be fast!

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