Question

EDIT: Duplicate of How do I return random numbers as a column in SQL Server 2005?

Hello How can I generate random numbers in mssql server 2005.

for example: when I select 500rows from table, each row must have one generated random number, numbers must be generated at runtime

UPDATE: I need the fastest method, generate numbers from large tables, datepart, same magic computations is realatively slow with big amount of rows

UPDATE thanks for answers, but o finally used this solution

SELECT ABS(CHECKSUM(NewId())) % 10 - 5 AS Random 

for random numbers from -5 to 5 and bonus is approximately the same number of occurances for each number

Answer 1

SELECT TOP 500     CONVERT(INT, CONVERT(VARBINARY(16), NEWID())) FROM     dbo.MyTable