Question

I need to choose one number randomly from the list of bigint in sql server 2008.
the number list is not continue

For example : The number list may be like this

1578
1579
1580
1587
1589
1590
1595
1603

Thanks in Adv.

Answer 1

I’ve had success with ordering the top 1 result of a select by newid():

select top 1 WhateverId from YourTable order by newid();