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Sample one item every million rows (from a larger population)

AlbertoRefra
6 - Meteoroid

Hi everyone! 

I'm struggling figuring out how to sample one item every million rows. 

 

Let's suppose we have a population of 50 million rows. 

I have to sample 1 item for the first million rows, 1 item for the second million rows, 1 item for the third, and so on... 

 

Do you have any advice on how to do this? 

 

I guess a Macro should help, but I'm not familiar with these functionalities/tools yet. 

 

Thank you for your support!

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DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Just spotted this again now - @sergejs_kutkovics nailed it here. Totally forgot about the seed option to allow repeatability!

AlbertoRefra
6 - Meteoroid

Hi @sergejs_kutkovics,thanks for your answer! 
I had to avoid the "RandInt" formula because for my purpose every part of the workflow must be replicable.

Anyway, I managed to find a work-around and above all to leverage the batch macro and use a "manual" seed to be sure that running the workflows again I will always have the same results. 

 

Thanks also to @DataNath for your kind support in going more in depth with the solution!

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