newid() inside sql server function

Question

I have to insert a fake column at the result of a query, which is the return value of a table-value function. This column data type must be unique-identifier. The best way (

Answer 1

here's a clever solution:

create view getNewID as select newid() as new_id

create function myfunction ()
returns uniqueidentifier
as begin
   return (select new_id from getNewID)
end

that i can't take credit for. i found it here: http://omnibuzz-sql.blogspot.com/2006/07/accessing-non-deterministic-functions.html

-don