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mdhingra01
Posting Yak Master

179 Posts

Posted - 2006-04-26 : 14:54:51

I know there is a RAND () function in SQL, but that only seems to work on int, smallint, bigint or tinyint. Is there something or someway to get random string of Alpha-numeric and special characters
eg.
ASD#T5RG

thanks

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2006-04-26 : 15:26:39

SELECT NEWID()

Tara Kizer
aka tduggan