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Eagle_f90
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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 Posted - 2002-12-18 : 08:23:40
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| I am trying to create a select statement that looks a column which contains numerical entries and then pulls 5 rows which have the heist numbers, and then it outputs the results in a random order. Anyone know how to do this?Thanks.--For thouse with wings, fly to your dreams. |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
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Posted - 2002-12-18 : 08:34:08
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| SELECT A.* FROM (SELECT TOP 5 * FROM myTable ORDER BY numCol DESC) A ORDER BY NEWID() |
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Eagle_f90
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
424 Posts |
Posted - 2002-12-18 : 09:43:56
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| Thanks! That worked perfictly.--For thouse with wings, fly to your dreams. |
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Weird Select statement