I remember that thread. Here is the one Nadya marked as the answer, but there were several ideas posted...

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I hope you have great holidays, Renoir.

Take care,

steve
>I need to take a project home over the holidays. It's a bit too big and I want to limit the number of records in the tables. I recall seeing a mechanism here not too long ago to pull off samples from tables. For argument's sake let's say that there is no need to worry about relationships or dependencies between tables. I only need 100 or so records out of around 500,000 for the larger tables. Anyone remember this? Nadya, was it you that did this? Thanks!
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>Regards, Renoir