I need to generate random strings each of length 7 characters and update it in a table that contains employee data.For example. There is table called as Employee. It has Id, FirstName, LastName & Email as the columns. I need to mask the real names. So i have to generate random characters between a-z unique for individual records and update it in the table.
I went through some websites for generating random characters. These provide a 7 or 8 character random letters. URL...But i do need to update 2 columns of an entire table with random characters.
Dear All, I have some problems with the assignment from my professor.
Suppose there are two tables storing first names and last names, one table with column of first name and gender, the other with last name.
how to write stored procedures to get a random first name + random last name for Males or Female. like you got a list of all M & F first name and last name, then you try to match first name with any other last name (I believe this is random).
and the task is to write a script so each time when a female or male full name is need, it will return a random name for the requested gender.
I am totally struck and no idea how to deal with it, in fact I am just a beginning in SQL server, and I know there is a stored procedure to generate random number, however, I can't see the use of it here,,,,:eek:
Could anyone help me out ? thanks very much !!!:beer:
How to create random number for the value in other colum. Please help and urgent
I have a table with 4 column ( ID, Ori_Quantity, Rand_Quantity, Location)
If Ori_quantity < 5000 then Rand_quanty as qty = I want Random number within 100 Else If Ori_quantity = 0 or < 10 then Rand_quanty as qty = I want Random number within 7 End if
From tblname where Location = 'DAS'
I have around 2500 field. So when I run the query I expect the result should be like below
I need to generate a random whole number between 0 and 999 to add toadd to every record in a table. The number needs to be different foreach record in the table.How would I do this all within TSQL?
I need to generate a random 10 digit alphanumeric string that is also unique within a table. My application will be calling a stored procedure to insert this number into the table. This number will be associated with a id from another table. Is it better to generate the random number within sql (and perform the lookup at the same time), then just pass the number back to the calling application ?
If the calling application generates the number, it will also need to make a call to check if its unique. So im thinking it would be best to simply have sql generate this random number, check the number against the table and then insert the new record.
hi I have a field call: password, I want to generates some random chars as default password for users (so user got something to login, and update later).
Current Solution I have: I made myself a trigger and it does generate password on insert, but the problem with that is I have to allow NULL on that field. I don't want NULL to be allowed, and if I don't allow null... sql server won't allow me to insert a record (when leaving password field empty).
Reason i don't wanna allow NULL on that field, is because there may be more applicaions using the same field from the same database. Just in case if the other developer gets sloopy, I don't want other application(s) allow user put to enter a null or leave it blank on my password field.
My question is: 1) can I put a function or some sort at the "Default" field under "Design Table", if so...how? 2) any suggestions for a better implementation? 3) if (1) doesn't work, what other options would you suggest other then the current trigger i'm using?
Hi,I need to extract randomly 5 records from the table "Questions". Now I useSELECT TOP 5 FROM Questions ORDERBY NEWID()And it works. The problem is that I need an additional thing: if SQLextracts record with ID=4, then it should not extract record with ID=9,because they are similar. I mean, I'd like something to tell SQL that if itextracts some questions, then it SHOULD NOT extract other ones.How can I do it?Thanks!Luke
I'm using ASP and SQL Serv 2000. What I need to get from 2 tables (company & customers) is random 10 customers from random 20 comp. Anyone got an idea how to do this??? I've spent 2 days trying to get stored proc. or T-SQL to work, but nothing good came out of it. I can get 1 comp and 10 cust, but not a grouped list of 20 comp. w/ 10 cust. each.
In my application I must store over 16000 character in a sql table field . When I split into more than 1 field it gives "unclosed quotation mark" message. How can I store over 16000 characters to sql table field (only one field) with language specific characters?
Hi everybody, I would like to know if there is any property in sql2000 database to separate lowercase characters from uppercase characters. I mean not to take the values €˜child€™ and €˜Child€™ as to be the same. We are transferring our ingres database into sqlserver. In ingres we have these values but we consider them as different values. Can we have it in sqlserver too?
Hello everybody,I was configuring a SqlDataSource control using SQL Authentication mode.I first added a database file (testdb.mdf) through Solution Explorer-Add New Items. Then through Database Explorer I created a table named "info"Then while configuring the SqlDataSource control I used the SQL Authentication mode and attached the "testdb.mdf" database file.Test Connection showed success. But when I hit the Ok button of the wizard it displayed the following error message:Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server. Only an integrated connection can generate a user instance.While configuring the SqlDataSource control I clicked "New Connection". Under Data Source section I tried both Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Database File. And in both the cases I attached a databese file(testdb.mdf). Plz enlighten me on this.Thanks and Regards,Sankar.
Hi there.I need to fetch ONE random row from many. How can i get it? I try toexecute "SELECT field.table FROM table ORDER by RAND()" no effect.Thank you.
Hy, I nead to make a stored procedure in order to add a random record set. This record set is used to write in an ASP page a list which is automatically modified everytime we reload the page.
I'm trying to use the following query to select two random records from my database. Do you have any ideas of why the recrand field will not change? I am using MS Sql server 7.. Please email mark@dtdesign.com ..Cheers Mark
SELECT TOP 2 mytable.id AS RECID, RAND(mytable.id) AS recrand FROM mytable ORDER BY recrand
Has anyone noticed that if you created DTS package and try to change connection properties (i.e. change DSN or redirect DTS to different server or Database), as soon you click OK it does not save new password and hence does not work anymore. In my case to move Database from Development to Production server I would have to recreate all DTS packages. Is there any way around it?
I am trying to get random numbers to have a unique value for different processes, then I can identify each process. What happens is that I use rand() function without seed, so I got my random numbers, but after shutting down SQLServer and try to get again another random number after booting up, the same series of random numbers is given again and again. So if anyone knows how I can get unique values,even though reseting the server, and using random function or any other method which automatically provides unique values,I'll really appreciate it if you let me know it.
Is there a way to write an SQL statement to choose random values from a particular select statement..for example: select * from address I was thinking, if there was a way to use an include statement for it like: select * from address where id IN ('generates some random values')
So i've got to generate these queries that go from the first of a one month to the last day of a month. the user provides the starting and ending months.
What I was wondering was is there an easy way to set the last day of the month in sql without having to go in and hard code which months end on the 30 and which ones end on the 31.
I once came across a database in which when ever a row was inserted, a unique random code was also inserted in a column. This code generated was similar to format like {8A5FE5F1-6BDA-476C-A4DB584A7710FBF91121054625}. I was told that SQL2000 has some inbuilt functionality for this.
Any idea on how to do this using SQL2000 or coding. I feel this is much better than Identity Column as using autonumbers in quesrystring is too much risky as they easily readable.
I have a table with 3 fields SiteID (PK), SiteCode, SiteName. For each SiteCode I have several rows with different SiteName. For example: 1 327 a 2 327 b 3 327 c 4 328 aa 5 328 bb......
I need to retrieve each time SiteCode with random SiteName. For example: 327 b , 327 a , 327 c 328 aa 328 bb 328 aa.
I need it very urgent, so any ideas will be very helpful. Thanks to all,
I have a customer that wants to be able to generate a random list... ----------------------- The list is case numbers, and I can get those easy enough by saying
SELECT dbo.table_case.id_number FROM dbo.table_case
Now, what I want to do is take that list and extract 1 out of every 1000, picking out random id_numbers to display.
Hi Experts , I want to insert datas randomly to all columns of a table.The columns have different datatypes like int,varchar,datetime. What to do??? It is urgent so please help.
