How to select N random records from a SQL Server table

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If you want to select N random records from a SQL Server table, you need to change the clause as follows:

select top N * from tableName order by newid()

For example, to select 5 random customers in the customers table, you use the following query:

select top 5 * from customers order by newid()

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