Get Random Record From SQL Table

Apr 22, 2007

Hi,
I am in a situation where our developer is on leave (annual leave for a month), and I have to add a control to my website, which is in aspx apges.
To start with i have created a table in my SQL database. this table has records with one-liners from various movies, and the movie title. The tabel have 3 columns, i.e. ID, Liners, MTitle.
So i want to get random records on the page when ever its refreshed. I am totally non-coder/programmer guy.
I have got a SQL statement from the internet " SELECT TOP 1 * FROM <table name> ORDER By NEWID() "

So would anyone please help me out with it, as is it correct, how can i apply in the aspx pages.

 
Thank you. 

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