I'm using ASP and SQL Serv 2000. What I need to get from 2 tables (company & customers) is random 10 customers from random 20 comp.
Anyone got an idea how to do this??? I've spent 2 days trying to get stored proc. or T-SQL to work, but nothing good came out of it. I can get 1 comp and 10 cust, but not a grouped list of 20 comp. w/ 10 cust. each.
Help is greatly appreciated.
Hi,I need to extract randomly 5 records from the table "Questions". Now I useSELECT TOP 5 FROM Questions ORDERBY NEWID()And it works. The problem is that I need an additional thing: if SQLextracts record with ID=4, then it should not extract record with ID=9,because they are similar. I mean, I'd like something to tell SQL that if itextracts some questions, then it SHOULD NOT extract other ones.How can I do it?Thanks!Luke
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using three tables.
select * from ldap_users as PL
where (emcidentitytype like '%P%')
and(ctscUserKeywords NOT LIKE '%LockedOut%')
AND(ctscUserKeywords NOT LIKE '%LockedOut%')
and emclastdayworked = ''
and (uid in(select fax from oracle_11i_user)
or uid in (select fax from ORACLE_1103_USER))
This query only display all the fields from PL.
I want to display end_date from both oracle11i and oracle1103 tables?
How would I do that?
Hi there.I need to fetch ONE random row from many. How can i get it? I try toexecute "SELECT field.table FROM table ORDER by RAND()" no effect.Thank you.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
i wanna fetch random data using sql query. is there any query that returns random row? Please help me.. i found some but they didnt work..
Hy,
I nead to make a stored procedure in order to add a random record set.
This record set is used to write in an ASP page a list which is automatically modified everytime we reload the page.
Thanks !
Hi,
I'm trying to use the following query to select two random records from my database. Do you have any ideas of why the recrand field will not change? I am using MS Sql server 7.. Please email mark@dtdesign.com ..Cheers Mark
SELECT TOP 2 mytable.id AS RECID, RAND(mytable.id) AS recrand
FROM mytable
ORDER BY recrand
Has anyone noticed that if you created DTS package and try to
change connection properties (i.e. change DSN or redirect
DTS to different server or Database), as soon you click OK
it does not save new password and hence does not work
anymore. In my case to move Database from Development to
Production server I would have to recreate all DTS packages.
Is there any way around it?
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
I am trying to get random numbers to have a unique value for different processes, then I can identify each process. What happens is that I use rand() function without seed, so I got my random numbers, but after shutting down SQLServer and try to get again another random number after booting up, the same series of random numbers is given again and again. So if anyone knows how I can get unique values,even though reseting the server, and using random function or any other method which automatically provides unique values,I'll really appreciate it if you let me know it.
This is the function: select rand()
Alberto.
Is there a way to write an SQL statement to choose random values from a particular select statement..for example:
select * from address
I was thinking, if there was a way to use an include statement for it like:
select * from address where id IN ('generates some random values')
thanks in advance
So i've got to generate these queries that go from the first of a one month to the last day of a month. the user provides the starting and ending months.
What I was wondering was is there an easy way to set the last day of the month in sql without having to go in and hard code which months end on the 30 and which ones end on the 31.
Hello guys , I am new here,
Well, I am moving my greetings script from MS Access to MS SQL, here is what I was using in MS Access.
See this screenshot: Click Here
Well, I've imported the data from access database, but I don't know how to do the AutoNumber in MS SQL,
Also I don't know how can I add that Random thing *See the arrow in the screenshot*
Thanks in advance
How can I have display random value for field varchar(10).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI once came across a database in which when ever a row was inserted, a unique random code was also inserted in a column. This code generated was similar to format like {8A5FE5F1-6BDA-476C-A4DB584A7710FBF91121054625}. I was told that SQL2000 has some inbuilt functionality for this.
Any idea on how to do this using SQL2000 or coding.
I feel this is much better than Identity Column as using autonumbers in quesrystring is too much risky as they easily readable.
Please help.
Thanks
I have a table with 3 fields SiteID (PK), SiteCode, SiteName.
For each SiteCode I have several rows with different SiteName.
For example: 1 327 a
2 327 b
3 327 c
4 328 aa
5 328 bb......
I need to retrieve each time SiteCode with random SiteName.
For example: 327 b , 327 a , 327 c
328 aa 328 bb 328 aa.
I need it very urgent, so any ideas will be very helpful. Thanks to all,
How Can I select a Random set of records from a database table?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a customer that wants to be able to generate a random list...
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The list is case numbers, and I can get those easy enough by saying
SELECT
dbo.table_case.id_number
FROM
dbo.table_case
Now, what I want to do is take that list and extract 1 out of every 1000, picking out random id_numbers to display.
Is this something I can do via a SQL query?
Thanks,
Dan
When I execute the following query several times, I get the same row if there is no new data inserted:
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM TableName
Is there a way to get a random row from the table? Thanks in advance.
Hi Experts ,
I want to insert datas randomly to all columns of a table.The columns have different datatypes like int,varchar,datetime. What to do??? It is urgent so please help.
TIA
RKNAIR
Hi Experts ,
I want to insert datas randomly to all columns of a table.The columns have different datatypes like int,varchar,datetime. How to create a procedure for the same??? please help.
TIA
RKNAIR
Generates a true random number from xxx to zzz. Uses a table variable so it all depends on the boundaries you specify how long it will take.
create procedure random_number
@lower int = 0,
@upper int = 256,
@number int = null output
as
set nocount on
declare @numbers table (number_id int identity(1,1), value int)
if @lower > @upper
begin
set @number = @lower
set @lower = @upper
set @upper = @number
end
set @number = rand((datepart(mm, getdate()) * 100000) + (datepart(ss, getdate()) * 1000) + datepart(ms, getdate()))
while (select count(*)
from @numbers) < (@upper - @lower + 1)
begin
insert into @numbers (value)
select (@upper - @lower + 1) * rand() + @lower
end
select @number = value
from @numbers
order by newid()
go
I used this to generate a random password. You can change what it returns to up to an 8000 character password if you feel brave. You will need this function (http://www.sqlteam.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14924) to generate the random numbers. For some reason, occassionaly a NULL (CHAR(0)) character would get in there and mess things up so I had to remove those. You could change this to even include the non alpha numeric characters.
create procedure random_password
@length smallint,
@password nvarchar(256) = null output
as
set nocount on
declare @number int
declare @lower int
declare @upper int
declare @part tinyint
if @length > 256 set @length = 256
set @password = ''
while len(@password) < @length
begin
exec random_number 0, 3, @part output
if @part = 0
select @lower = ascii('a'),
@upper = ascii('z')
else if @part = 1
select @lower = ascii('A'),
@upper = ascii('Z')
else if @part = 2
select @lower = ascii('0'),
@upper = ascii('9')
set @part = null
set @number = null
exec random_number @lower, @upper, @number output
set @password = @password + ltrim(char(@number))
if substring(@password, len(@password), 1) = char(0) set @password = left(@password, len(@password) - 1)
end
go
I have a table
IDCODENAME
611GI08Gian
610GI07Gian
618GI15Gian
620 FT Rope
320 ST Soler
345 ST01 Soler
I need the output one random value from same name
like
IDCODENAME
611GI08Gian (it should be random)
620 FT Rope
320 ST Soler (it should be random)
I need to update an integer column in my table with a random number. Here's what I've done so far (with the table name and column names changed):
UPDATE dbo.MyTable
SET Column1 = RAND() * 1000000
My question is, how come the values in my column all have the same value? I thought the RAND function gives out a random number? How can I update my table to generate random numbers?
Thanks in advance.
Hi all,
I have a table with a multiple fields. I want to create a query that it will show me one dataset according to a random numder the system choose...
For istanse if it choose the number 13 it will show all the records conserning that id
I used the following query, but of course it is wrong
select * from famous_queries
where id = rand(id)
Could someone help me with this please?
Hi -
I am new to TSQL and any help on the following would be appreciated.
I have a table that looks like this
security Message
2345 Good
2346 Good
uoas Bad
fsaf More
sdad More
asdd More
ndgs More
I have to pull in a list of distinct messages with a count and any 3 cusips that belong to the message.
I have written, something like this
SELECT MESSAGE_TEXT, COUNT(*) AS Expr1, MIN(security) AS Expr2, MAX(SECURITY) AS Expr3
FROM dbo.DerivedSIACDataMessages
GROUP BY MESSAGE_TEXT
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
However, this lets me pull only 2 securities per message and I want to pull in 4 cusips.
Any help would be apprecioated
Thanks.
Hi every one.How can I get random 4 records in my table.
Example I want to get top 4 random records
Select top 4 from tbl_Products.....?
Thanks in appreciate
Hi all!
I have a table with three columns: Identity, DateTime (current_timestamp) and one which I want to fill with random values always depending on the value in the same column one row above.
Since I want it to be a stored procedure I have to pass three parameters - an initial value, the range within the random number is higher or lower than the number in the preceding row and the number of rows which should be inserted. This means that as soon as a new row is inserted there is also a new seed for the random value for the next line.
My problem now is that I would always get out the same number. Maybe you know a solution for my problem.
Many thanks and greetings from Austria
Landau
Im trying to write a statement that only selects one of the possible rows that could be given.
For example:
Car ID: Colours Available:
1 Blue
1 Green
1 Black
I want the statement to return:
Car ID: Colours Available:
1 Blue(Random Selection)
Is this possible?
Thanks
Hi,
I have an int column that i want to have random numbers inserted into it.
How can I create random integer numbers to insert into my column?
Thanks
Whisky-my beloved dog who died suddenly on the 29/06/06-I miss u so much.
I want to have a SELECT statement in stored procedure to make a random ORDER every time it runs, so one time ORDER BY first_name, then maybe person_telephone, then maybe per created_date, etc..
Can anyone tell my why I'm getting these first few errors? IT seems to be preventing my SQl Agent from successfully firing off my SSIS package:
01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Warning,[396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined - OnIdle job schedules will have no effect
01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Warning,[260] Unable to start mail session (reason: No mail profile defined)
01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Information,[129] SQLSERVERAGENT starting under Windows NT service control
01/04/2006 09:53:48,,Error,[364] The Messenger service has not been started - NetSend notifications will not be sent
Hello,
i want to anonymous data by multiplicating with a random generated value. After a little bit research i know that is only solvable with a script task, but i dont have seen a working example script. Does anybody knows where i can found a little scriptlet or post something? Thank you!
Jonas