That is a beautiful piece of code. I have to do this for a site next
week..saved my weekend thanks.
At 11:08 AM 12/12/00 -0900, you wrote:
>declare @rand_id int
>while @rand_id is null
>BEGIN
>set @rand_id = (select id
>from table
>where id = rand() * (select max(id) from table) + 1)
>END
>select * from table where id = @rand_id
end
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