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Im planning to make an entrance examination windows application in vb.net,VS2012, and i want to randomly select questions from database(i use ms sql server 2005 express) and not repeating every question. I have a limited idea in using binding navigator... is it possible to randomly select using binding navigator or if not do you have any ideas, suggestions,tutorials or articles that do you want to share? What s the best way/solutions to do this?

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Posted 17-Sep-13 17:28pm

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PIEBALDconsult · Answer 1 · 2013-09-17T18:19:00

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Often (with SQL Srver anyway), you can sort the rows by NEWID() to get a fairly random order.
But, chances are, you don't want it to be completely random.

Posted 17-Sep-13 18:19pm

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