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Generate Random Alphanumeric Strings

This script will generate and populate a table variable with a stipulated number of unique 8 randomly generated character alphanumeric values. This can be useful in situations where one has to allocate passwords or unique id to users. It accepts one input parameter "@HowMany int" representing the number of these alphanumeric values to generate; default=500.Usage: […]

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2004-07-06 (first published: )

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