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  • February 21, 2013 at 8:34 am

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    wafw1971 (2/21/2013)

    I have 4 million lines of code....

    Four million lines of code would keep you quiet for a while! I guess you mean four million rows in a table?

    Read the section covering SELECT TOP... in Books Online, also NTILE(). Either of these could give you a good start.

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