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Top N Random records from each group

October 12th, 2009 Arun Mallick 2 comments

Problem:

The requirement is to get top 10 employee’s name randomly from each department in a company. Let me elaborate it. Suppose in a company ABC, there are 1500 employees with 5 departments and each department have more than 200 employees. The manager wants to list down at least 10 names of the employees randomly from each department for a survey.

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