>>>What's a better way to do a random "quote for the day"?
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>>What is your back-end?
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>>In SQL Server to generate a random record you will use
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>>select top 1 * from myTable order by NewID()
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>>In VFP I would agree with Sergey about generating random record using rand() function.
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>Does that really work in SQL Server? I had not thought of using NewID in that way.

Yes it works, because NewID generates a GUID which is a 128 bits random integer.
Cetin