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I wouldn't use RAND. Nowadays I use ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 1000 to get random number between 0 and 999. It has better distribution than RAND(). Also RAND() alwasys returns same value first time after...
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Here is my attempt to guessing the Algorithm used in SQL Rand() This algorithm returns the same value than SQL on my machine. Let me know if this works with you. This is C# code. public class SQLRand {...
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I wouldn't use RAND. Nowadays I use ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 1000 to get random number between 0 and 999. It has better distribution than RAND(). Also RAND() alwasys returns same value first time after...
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Here is my attempt to guessing the Algorithm used in SQL Rand() This algorithm returns the same value than SQL on my machine. Let me know if this works with you. This is C# code. public class SQLRand {...
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