just curious, cant you just create one called temp and use it constantly?

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:46:48 -0500, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another option would be, if you had an auto-generated numeric primary key, determine your range, call a random number generator, verify that the number is a valid primary key, then do a DELETE * WHERE pk != randomKey.
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> Just thinking out loud.....
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Greg Morphis
>  To: CF-Talk
>  Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:32 PM
>  Subject: Re: SQL Question
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>  I think you'd probably have to have a temp table and save a record to it
>  and then delete out the entire original table and then insert the
>  single row back into the table from temp.
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>  On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:19:39 -0400, Qasim Rasheed
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Hello
>  >
>  > I want to delete all records from a table except one (a random one).
>  > Is there a way to do it? I am using SQL Server
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