Non repetable random number generation script

By ravi lobo, 2007/06/20

Some time back i had the requirement for a SP which will give non repeatable random numbers with in a range. Following SP accepts a range and gives the random numbers. Once the numbers are exhausetd NULL, will be the out put. In this case user can restart the random number generation by passing 1 as the third parameter. EXECUTION --------- DECLARE @from int ,@to int ,@restart int -- (0 or 1) SELECT @from=10, @to=15 EXECUTE non_repeat_rand @from,@to -- or EXECUTE non_repeat_rand 10,15,1

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