Now this is interesting. Watch what happens when you try to find out how many of those random integers are randomly repeated:
SELECT Number, COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))%(500-300+1)+300 AS Number
FROM dbo.Numbers
WHERE number <= 200
) d
GROUP BY Number
ORDER BY Number
๐
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