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Author  Topic  mlarrea Starting Member 2 Posts Posted - 2001-05-18 : 13:59:18 Please help, I need to scramble real customer data to be able to use it in a demo. Specifically I need to change the zipcodes and phone numbers. I figured I could use the rand() function, but I'm getting one single random number for all the values... Here's what I tried: update mytable SET zip = right(rand(),5)+' ' Thanks so much for your help, Monica