Randomly ordered results in TSQL
SELECT TOP 10 userID FROM user ORDER BY NEWID()
or
SELECT TOP 10 NEWID() [egg], userID FROM user ORDER BY [egg]
or
SELECT TOP 10 NEWID(), userID FROM user ORDER BY 1
only tried the above with TSQL
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SELECT TOP 10 userID FROM user ORDER BY NEWID()
SELECT TOP 10 NEWID() [egg], userID FROM user ORDER BY [egg]
SELECT TOP 10 NEWID(), userID FROM user ORDER BY 1
UPDATE emailFormat SET format=2 FROM emailFormat EF INNER JOIN user U ON EF.userID = U.userID
--Adds a sql_variant element to the end of a sql_variant list, after first inserting a delimiter (nvarchar) --If both element and list are nvarchars, using dbo.fnAddToList will be faster ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fnAddVarToList (@VarList sql_variant, @VarNew sql_variant, @Del nvarchar(10)) RETURNS nvarchar(4000) AS BEGIN DECLARE @List nvarchar(4000), @New nvarchar(4000) SELECT @List = NULLIF(CONVERT(nvarchar(4000), @VarList), ''), @New = NULLIF(CONVERT(nvarchar(4000), @VarNew), '') --First try the concatened string, if null then just the list, --if it too is null, just the new element RETURN COALESCE(@List + @Del + @New, @List, @New) END
--Adds an element (nvarchar) to the end of a list (nvarchar), after first inserting a delimiter (nvarchar) ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fnAddToList (@List nvarchar(4000), @New nvarchar(4000), @Del nvarchar(10)) RETURNS nvarchar(4000) AS BEGIN --Treat ''s as NULLs SELECT @List = NULLIF(@List, ''), @Del = NULLIF(@Del, ''), @New = NULLIF(@New, '') --First try the concatened string, if null then just the list, --if it too is null, just the new element RETURN COALESCE(@List + @Del + @New, @List, @New) END
/* _A_dd to _C_omma delimited _L_ist - simplified version of AddToList Adds an element (nvarchar) to the end of a comma delimited list (nvarchar) */ ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fnACL (@List nvarchar(4000), @New nvarchar(4000)) RETURNS nvarchar(4000) AS BEGIN --Treat ''s as NULLs SELECT @List = NULLIF(@List, ''), @New = NULLIF(@New, '') --first try returning the concatened string, if null then try just the list, if it too is null, just the new element RETURN COALESCE(@List + ',' + @New, @List, @New) END