RE: Randomizing

Using Buck's suggestion of SQL's RAND()

create table mylib/randomized
as( with randFile as (select rand() as RandNbr, a.*
from myfile
)
select b.fld1, b.fld2, b.fld3, <...>
from randfile B
order by RandNbr
) with data

HTH,
Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Harman
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:33 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Randomizing

I have a file of sequence #'s I need to randomize. Could be
anywhere from 500 to 50,000 #'s. I can do it brute force by
generating random #'s inthe range needed and plucking them
from the master file and write to an outfile until I hit
every occurrence, but there has to be a better
(more efficient) way. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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