Comments on: Random Number Generator in T-SQL

By: none

none — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:23:59 +0000

@charles: nice advert for your site!

By: Michael Tobisch

Michael Tobisch — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:44:44 +0000

This help a lot! Thank you very much!

By: Charles Southey

Charles Southey — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:59:32 +0000

You could check out the random number generators in http://www.totallysql.com/Products/SQLUtilities. Or, if you want a non-uniform distribution (eg. Normal distribution), there’s http://www.totallysql.com/Products/SQLDistributions.

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:37:06 +0000

Nice script! I helped me get what I needed. Thanks a ton!

By: Mark Horninger

Mark Horninger — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:32:51 +0000

Thanks! this saved me some time this AM!

By: Timmy

Timmy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:29 +0000

Excellent script! I modified it a tiny bit to accomplish something different, but the guts are all yours!

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By: Aaron Lowe

Aaron Lowe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:27:39 +0000

I use the same as Adam does:

RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))

I actually got it from Itzik about 5 years ago at SQLConnections in Las Vegas.