Question

I need to generate multiple random values under SQL Server 2005 and somehow this simply won’t work

with Random(Value) as (     select rand() Value         union all     select rand() from Random      )select top 10 * from Random 

What’s the preferred workaround?

Answer 1

have you tries something like this (found at http://weblogs.sqlteam.com ) :

CREATE VIEW vRandNumber AS SELECT RAND() as RandNumber GO 

create a function

CREATE FUNCTION RandNumber() RETURNS float AS   BEGIN      RETURN (SELECT RandNumber FROM vRandNumber)   END GO 

then you can call it in your selects as normal Select dbo.RandNumber() , * from myTable

or from their comments:

select RAND(CAST(NEWID() AS BINARY(6))), * from myTable