RE: SQL RAND function question

Did some playing around, trial and error gave me the following:

Date Count(*)
2008-03-01 12,140
2008-04-01 11,952
2008-05-01 12,276
2008-06-01 12,095
2008-07-01 12,342
2008-08-01 12,302
2008-09-01 12,094
2008-10-01 12,285
2008-11-01 12,251
2008-12-01 12,248
2009-01-01 12,323
2009-02-01 12,216

When using:

Mydate = date('2008-03-01') + cast((rand(12) * 11.999999) as int) months

Given that the average is 12,210 or so, the above results seem good enough (maybe ;)



Charles Wilt
Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx

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Subject: SQL RAND function question

All,



I'm attempting to use SQL's RAND() function to randomly assign a number
from 0-11. Actually, the 0-11
is used as a number of months to add to 2008-03-01.



Looking at a count of the results however seems to indicate I'm doing
something wrong:



Date count(*)

2008-03-01 13,234

2008-04-01 6,536

2008-05-01 13,262

2008-06-01 13,153

2008-07-01 13,474

2008-08-01 13,448

2008-09-01 13,245

2008-10-01 13,329

2008-11-01 13,358

2008-12-01 13,307

2009-01-01 13,542

2009-02-01 6,636



I'm thinking perhaps the way I'm going from the RAND() results to a
integer from 0-11 is the problem.
Anybody understand what I'm doing wrong?



myDate = date('2008-03-01') + cast(round((rand(12) * 11),0) as int)
months



Thanks!



Charles Wilt

Software Engineer

CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B

513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx>




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