Generate Random alphanumeric value based on timestamp

• Siva Ramasamy

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  July 19, 2019 at 8:35 pm

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  Hi All,

  Thank you for looking into my question.

  Does anyone have a script that could take the current timestamp and convert that into a random alphanumeric value (30+ digits).

  Thanks

• rVadim

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  July 19, 2019 at 9:02 pm

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  Why not simply use NEWID() function? Or you want date and time to be a part of the generated random number? I guess sample of the desired output will be nice.

  --Vadim R.

• Jeff Moden

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  July 20, 2019 at 3:49 am

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  Siva Ramasamy wrote:

  Hi All, Thank you for looking into my question. Does anyone have a script that could take the current timestamp and convert that into a random alphanumeric value (30+ digits). Thanks

  A 30 character random alpha-numeric generator will generate a shedload of swear words.  Us 2 GUIDs, instead.

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