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Answer by Ralph Shillington for Select n random rows from SQL Server table

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select top 10 percent * from [yourtable] order by newid()

In response to the "pure trash" comment concerning large tables: you could do it like this to improve performance.

select  * from [yourtable] where [yourPk] in (select top 10 percent [yourPk] from [yourtable] order by newid())

The cost of this will be the key scan of values plus the join cost, which on a large table with a small percentage selection should be reasonable.


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