Creating Nondeterministic functions in SQL Server using RAND()

Question

After a bit of searching and reading the documentation, it\'s clear that you can write user defined functions in SQL Server that are marked as either deterministic or nondet

Answer 1

Because it has side effects.

Constructs with side effects are not allowed in a function. The side effect that it has is to change some internal state that keeps track of the last rand() value issued.

I think you can get around it by including it in a View definition then selecting from the View.