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mafro on 04/23/07


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Sort by random character

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Sort a result set by a random letter - this example uses the alphabet and a column named 'text'

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  1. ORDER BY case when LEFT([text], 1) >= CHAR(65 + 26 * rand()) then 0 else 1 end

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Posted By: Davidhref on August 23, 2007

mafro this is good stuff thanks. This is useful for much more than sorting.

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