2004-10-05
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Randomise the order of a SELECT
I have a set of data that I need to display in a random order each time I displayed it. There are several ways to do this, for example using a CURSOR to add each record to a temp table with a GUID, but a quick and dirty way to do this is to use […]
2002-05-16
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