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newid() not really cutting it....

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m0nkey

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Mar 20, 2003
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Hi all,
i have a large database with 150 million records that i want to pull 1 mil random records. i tried to order by newid() and this caused my tempdb to fill up after running for 33 hrs...anyone have any ideas on how to generate some random results...this is a consumer contact database used for market research...is there an efficient way to generate random results on such a large database...thanks in advance...

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