Hi Everyone!

Assume (highly anonymized):

Create Table myTable

(

ID INT PK,

INDEXNUMBER INT,

VERSION INT,

Data VARCHAR(MAX)

)

This table is used to store mutually exclusive data. For example:

100 1 1 BOB

217 1 2 JOHN

319 1 3 GEORGE

420 7 1 MARY

415 7 2 SUSAN

In this case, I need to randomly pick ONE of BOB, JOHN or GEORGE and ONE of MARY or SUSAN.

I'm happy with either the ID or the INDEXNUMBER/VERSION pair.

If it helps to think about it, it's like picking a single shift of a hockey team from a table containing a roster:

Pick 1 Center from 3 available, Pick 1 Left Wing from 5 available, etc.

I've been playing with NEWID() and MAX/MIN (Cast NEWID to varchar first) but I keep getting hung up on the GROUP BY. If I GROUP BY ID, then max is operating on a 

single row at a time, yielding the entire table.

If I GROUP BY INDEXNUMBER, VERSION I get a similar result (The pair being unique).

What I need to do is GROUP BY INDEXNUMBER (excluding ID from the query entirely) yet somehow retrieve the VERSION.

Thanks in advance!