I need to insert random data in my database for testing, and would need to generate a numeric string (can start with 0) 27 characters long.
I've been looking into NEWID()
but it contains also letters, same for NEWSEQUENTIALID()
.
So far my approach would be to make a while loop, generate each digit randomly and concatenate it, but it seems to be a very slow approach.
I am using MSSQL 2014.
A possible solution, based on this approach (using CHECKSUM()
and NEWID()
):
CREATE TABLE TestTable(RandomNumber varchar(27))
DECLARE @length int = 27
;WITH rCTE AS (
SELECT 1 AS n
UNION ALL
SELECT n + 1
FROM rCTE
WHERE n < @length
)
INSERT INTO TestTable(RandomNumber)
VALUES ((SELECT ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10 FROM rCTE FOR XML PATH('')))
-- For SQL Server 2017+
-- VALUES ((SELECT STRING_AGG(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) % 10, '') FROM rCTE))