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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2005-07-13 : 07:51:28
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| shereen writes "I have a database that has the names of people who could participate in surveys... I need to randomly select 20% of the people who are active to participate in a survey... in the table, i have a field for the people name, active "which means if yes, the person is willing to participate in the survey, otherwise, he does not"I need to select 20% of the those active people randomly, and then send them the survey.... Can you please show me how to create the stored procedure that would do such statistics?thanks" |
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madhivanan
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Posted - 2005-07-13 : 07:57:46
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| [code]select top 20 percent name from yourTable where active='Yes' order by newid()[/code]MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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statistics for stored procedure