[AccessD] A2003: Random order

<<<
 Susan sent me an article she'd written with Arthur Fuller
>>>
Steve,

Do you mean this article, which  I have just got it "googled"?
http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/10167/1954?pf=true

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Random order


> Shamil,
>
> Very interesting. Susan sent me an article she'd written with Arthur
Fuller
> suggesting the same use of NEWID(). Thanks again.
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
>
> On 10/26/05, Shamil Salakhetdinov <shamil at users.mns.ru> wrote:
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > I should have written that this query is enough:
> >
> > select CategoryId, CategoryName
> > from Categories
> > order by newid()
> >
> > to get random order of source records.
> >
> > But RAND(Checksum(newid())) make generated values a kind of normalized.
> > Additionally you can write:
> >
> > Convert(int, Floor(Rand(Checksum(newid()))*100+1))
> >
> > to get integer random IDs in the range 1-100. But take into account that
> > they can be non-unique.
> >
> > For pure mdb +VBA solution you can use similar approach with a function
> > like
> > the one described here
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q176790
> >
> > to get random seed string, which can be converted to random ID
similarily
> > to
> > MS SQL solution.
> >
> > Shamil
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Random order
> >
> >
> > > <<<
> > > how I might speed this up?
> > > >>>
> > > Steve,
> > >
> > > In MS SQL you can use lightning fast query (Northwind db as example):
> > >
> > > select CategoryId, CategoryName
> > > from Categories
> > > order by RAND(Checksum(newid()))
> >
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