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From: Uwe Schneider <pi@nospam.richard-schneider.de>
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Subject: Re: ORACLE - Random Function??
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Hi Oliver,

Oliver Henlich wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> Does anyone know if there is a function to generate a random number in
> oracle?

creating random numbers is _the_ example for calling external procedures
(EXTPROC) in the excellent book "Oracle PL/SQL", O'Reilly.

Uwe
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