Question

I found this handy query;

SELECT TOP 1 * FROM Advertising ORDER BY NEWID()

but need to turn it into a LINQ query.

I tried doing something like;

var a = (from record in Advertising
        select record)

but can’t figure out how to do the ordering so that a random record is returned.

Answer 1

It is probably easiest to just execute the command directly.

var a = ctx.ExecuteQuery<Advertising>("select top 1 * from Advertising order by NEWID()").First();

You could also do it with an sproc, or if you want a totally generic way to do it you can query the count, then generate a random number in that range and skip. (As others have noted while I was typing this)