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  • May 23, 2010 at 6:19 pm

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    battula.praveen (3/29/2010)

    See this small example and check that helps.

    http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-generate-random-numbers-in-t-sql.html

    The only problem with that is that it uses RAND() alone and is good for only one row at a time.

    --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.

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