>>>I want/need to create just one random number for the current row, when Inserting a record. This is not a PK field but still, for business purpose, needs to have a unique entry. So I don't think that I would need to use checksum().
>>>And I will see the article by Pinal Dave; I read a lot of his on-line articles; he is very prolific.
>>>Thank you.
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>>In this case RAND() function should work just fine to generate a single random number.
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>Thank you.

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