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Hi all how do i create random 16 digit numbers in SQL server? I would like these numbers to start with a 1, thanks for your help!
It depends quite how random and how unique you want them... Select ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % will give you a random number up to the value of `INT` Note however, its not guaranteed to be unique or truly random. If you need a hand prefixing it with a 1 come back again. [edit - full solution] DECLARE @var bigint SELECT @var = 100000000000000 + (CAST(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10000000 AS bigint) * CAST(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10000000 AS bigint)) PRINT @var print LEN(@var) GO 20 should always give a 15 digit number starting with a 1
You can use the expression provided by @Fatherjack in a CROSSAPPLY in the UPDATE statement. See code below.. This will generate random value for each row of your table. UPDATE T SET YourField = R.RandomValue FROM YourTable T CROSS APPLY (SELECT 100000000000000 + (CAST(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10000000 AS bigint) * CAST(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10000000 AS bigint)) AS RandomValue) R
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Yes, I understood that. Can you see from my example how you can use it to make the data that you require.
hi not quite... as i stated i already have 10000 test accounds. If i use this in an update statement i have 10000 test accounts with the same card number. I need a unique card number for EACH account, so have to figure out some way of getting this into a cursor i guess? i'm not really very familiar with cursors...
SQL Server has a built-in function to generate random number. The function is RAND(). It is a mathematical function. It returns a random float value between 0 and 1. We can also use an optional seed parameter, which is an integer expression (tinyint, smallint or int) that gives the seed or start
value.To use it, we need to use a simple SELECT statement as follows: SELECT RAND() AS [RandomNumber] For more example please click :[URL][1] Thanks [1]:
http://cybarlab.blogspot.com/2013/02/random-number-in-sql.html
@cybarcom, SQL Server has the RAND() function. Unfortunately, this function is evaluated only once per query, so you cannot get random number for each row. Therefore the workaround with CHECKSUM() of NEWID() which generates unique GUID for every row processed if it is part of the select statement.
And it doesn't actually generate a value between 0 and 1. It generates values >=0 and < 1. Ironically, it requires a random seed to return more than 1 random number if used in a set-based SELECT.
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