Well, searching the ProFox archives, I see this was discussed earlier
and the suggestions point here:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=844242
On 11/20/2012 11:37 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
Hello Profoxers,
I'm trying to generate a good sample data and I'm trying to generate
it as quickly as possible of course. I'm not sure I think I know
=RAND() like I think I did.
Here's what I'm trying to do:
[1] Generate log data for a random number of users
[2] ... that visit a random number of customer records
[3] .... that generate a random number activities
[4] ..... that occur at random times of the day
Each of the above steps became a function in my data generation, and
one of the first lines is "=RAND(-1)" but I think since I'm in such a
tight loop, that the RAND() is seeding off of the clock so I'm not
getting a good random seed.
Should I just give up and call some webservice to get better random
numbers, or is there something that I'm not understanding?
-Kevin
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