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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (6/17/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/17/2015)


    Revenant (6/17/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/17/2015)


    crookj (6/17/2015)


    DonlSimpson (6/17/2015)


    djj (6/17/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/17/2015)


    djj (6/17/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/17/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/17/2015)


    Chocolate

    Dark

    Light

    Sabre

    Tooth

    Tiger (I don't think I had a choice)

    Woods

    Hunting

    Egg

    Omlet

    Allium sativum

    Garlic (Had to...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/11/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/11/2015)


    crookj (6/11/2015)


    ZZartin (6/11/2015)


    Bottle

    Rum

    Running

    quirky

    Qt

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    djj (6/11/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/11/2015)


    crookj (6/11/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/11/2015)


    djj (6/11/2015)


    Stuart Davies (6/11/2015)


    BL0B_EATER (6/11/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/10/2015)


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    Ed Wagner (6/10/2015)


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    Manic Star (6/10/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/10/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/10/2015)


    crookj (6/10/2015)


    Zombie

    Worker

    Oxymoron

    brain

    bureaucrat

    Inefficient

    Cursor

    Set

    Theory

    everything

    42 (I had to)

    Life

    Reincarnation

    Rewrite

    Typo

    Syntax

  • RE: Magic 8 Ball

    andrew_dale (6/10/2015)


    yes that now makes sense

    the function ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()) % 100) is being treated as a field even though it is not in the select list

    Each row gets a value (may...

  • RE: Magic 8 Ball

    andrew_dale (6/10/2015)


    That doesn't answer my question. As I said the function will produce a number between 0 and 99, as you have just confirmed.

    So how does ORDER BY 79 actually...

  • RE: Magic 8 Ball

    David in .AU (6/9/2015)


    A bit of fun.

    Question:

    Since I assume the computer your SQL Server is on has a network card, why not just order by newid()?

    Yes the newid() would have...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/9/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/9/2015)


    djj (6/9/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/8/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/8/2015)


    crookj (6/8/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/8/2015)


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    DonlSimpson (6/8/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/8/2015)


    djj (6/8/2015)


    Ed Wagner (6/8/2015)


    DonlSimpson (6/5/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (6/5/2015)


    Monarchy

    Empire

    Republic

    Plato

    Socrates

    Philosopher

    Academy

    Starfleet

    KDF

    Bird of Prey

    Specialization

    Specific

    General

    Generations

    X

  • RE: Magic 8 Ball

    Yes.

    The NEWID() generates a random GUID. Then we do a checksum on against the GUID to get us integer value. Next we do a modulo operation to get the...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    whereisSQL? (5/29/2015)


    hughmanning (5/29/2015)


    Artifical

    Intelligence

    research

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/14/2015)


    Revenant (5/14/2015)


    Ed Wagner (5/14/2015)


    crookj (5/14/2015)


    Ed Wagner (5/14/2015)


    djj (5/14/2015)


    Ed Wagner (5/13/2015)


    SQLRNNR (5/13/2015)


    djj (5/12/2015)


    Ed Wagner (5/12/2015)


    Revenant (5/12/2015)


    SQLRNNR (5/12/2015)


    djj (5/12/2015)


    BWFC (5/12/2015)


    SQLRNNR (5/12/2015)


    whereisSQL? (5/12/2015)


    BWFC (5/12/2015)


    Intelligence

    Business

    Oxymoron

    Subjective

    Objective

    Lens

    Magnify

    Quantify

    Numbers

    Meaning

    Life

    Curly (City Slickers)

    Cowboy

    Steer

    Tenderloin

    Tipping (cow)

    Canoe

    Canada

    Caesium

    Pollucite

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    djj (4/30/2015)


    Revenant (4/30/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/30/2015)


    eccentricDBA (4/30/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/30/2015)


    Revenant (4/30/2015)


    crookj (4/30/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/30/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/29/2015)


    Revenant (4/29/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/29/2015)


    Stuart Davies (4/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/28/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/28/2015)


    TomThomson (4/28/2015)


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    Ed Wagner (4/28/2015)


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    SQLRNNR (4/28/2015)


    TomThomson...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (4/30/2015)


    Revenant (4/30/2015)


    crookj (4/30/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/30/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/29/2015)


    Revenant (4/29/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/29/2015)


    Stuart Davies (4/29/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/28/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/28/2015)


    TomThomson (4/28/2015)


    crookj (4/28/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/28/2015)


    Revenant (4/28/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/28/2015)


    TomThomson (4/27/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/27/2015)


    marlin

    spike

    hall

    fame

    Fortune

    Teller

    Automatic

    Tommy

    Gun

    Smoke

    Mirrors

    Reflect

    surface

    Pro 4

    Amateur

    Slapdash

    Irresponsible

    Management

    Risk

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (4/27/2015)


    marlin

    Brando (his fishy cousin)

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (4/23/2015)


    Revenant (4/23/2015)


    djj (4/23/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/23/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/23/2015)


    djj (4/23/2015)


    TomThomson (4/22/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/22/2015)


    djj (4/22/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/21/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/21/2015)


    fecal fabric flinging fairies

    Pixie Dust

    Neverland

    Dragons

    Dungeons

    Master

    Game

    Theory

    Relativity

    Time

    Travel

    Dimension

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/21/2015)


    Ed Wagner (4/21/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/21/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/21/2015)


    faint

    distant

    Far

    Fetched

    idea

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