Sometimes our table contains large number of records where we need to retrieve some of them (randomly). The TABLESAMPLE clause in SQL Server allows to extract a sampling of rows from a table in the FROM clause. It limits the number of rows returned from a table in the FORM clause to a sample number or PERCENT of rows. The TABLESAMPLE clause takes a parameter that can be a percent or a number representing how many rows to retrieve. The retrieved result of rows are random and they are not in any order. Each time you get a different result set when you run query.