The "it" was the suggested solution: SELECTTOP5PERCENT * FROM Data.SalesByCountry ORDERBY NEWID()
The table is already there - the task was to retrieve some records randomly.
In that case, I totally agree! 😀
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. 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.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.