Alex in a nutshell » SQL http://salamakha.com/blog Random thoughts on IT Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:40:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Random sort in T-SQL http://salamakha.com/blog/2007/07/15/random-sort-in-t-sql/ http://salamakha.com/blog/2007/07/15/random-sort-in-t-sql/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:29:11 +0000 Alex Salamakha http://salamakha.com/blog/2007/07/15/random-sort-in-t-sql/ Recently I had a task to return rows from a SQL Server database in random order.

Here is a simple solution:

SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY newid()

Potential applications include selecting a random tip of the day or a random product of the day for any portal/online shop/etc, which is now simple enough by typing the following:

SELECT TOP 1 * FROM MyTable ORDER BY newid()

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