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Randomly Select Records

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nickjar2

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Is there an easy way to randomly select, say 100 records.
Eg. If I had a table of 1000 recs and every week week I wanted to pull off a sample 100 recs, could this be done? I know i could request the top n values but I need the query to be totally random.

Thanks

Nick
 
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Sorry,

I think my question may have been answered previously.
 
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Ihave a sample db that does it if you'd like it.. Joe Miller
joe.miller@flotech.net
 
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click on thread701-33057 I just posted this soloution this week.

MichaelRed
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