Shuffle a string with mysql/sql

Here you go:

DELIMITER //

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS shuffle //

CREATE FUNCTION shuffle(
    v_chars TEXT
)
RETURNS TEXT
NOT DETERMINISTIC -- multiple RAND()'s
NO SQL
SQL SECURITY INVOKER
COMMENT ''
BEGIN
    DECLARE v_retval TEXT DEFAULT '';
    DECLARE u_pos    INT UNSIGNED;
    DECLARE u        INT UNSIGNED;

    SET u = LENGTH(v_chars);
    WHILE u > 0
    DO
      SET u_pos = 1 + FLOOR(RAND() * u);
      SET v_retval = CONCAT(v_retval, MID(v_chars, u_pos, 1));
      SET v_chars = CONCAT(LEFT(v_chars, u_pos - 1), MID(v_chars, u_pos + 1, u));
      SET u = u - 1;
    END WHILE;

    RETURN v_retval;
END;
//

DELIMITER ;

SELECT shuffle('abcdef');

See sqlfiddle.com for the output.

Tested successfully with mariadb 10.1 (mysql 5.6 equivalent)

Edit: this solution is for Microsoft SQL Server.

As it's not allowed to use RAND() in user defined function, we create a view to use it later in our shuffle function:

CREATE VIEW randomView
AS
SELECT RAND() randomResult
GO

The actual shuffle function is as following:

CREATE FUNCTION shuffle(@string NVARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS NVARCHAR(MAX) AS 
BEGIN

    DECLARE @pos INT 
    DECLARE @char CHAR(1)
    DECLARE @shuffeld NVARCHAR(MAX)
    DECLARE @random DECIMAL(18,18) 

    WHILE LEN(@string) > 0
        BEGIN
            SELECT @random = randomResult FROM randomView
            SET @pos = (CONVERT(INT, @random*1000000) % LEN(@string)) + 1
            SET @char = SUBSTRING(@string, @pos, 1)
            SET @shuffeld = CONCAT(@shuffeld, @char)

            SET @string = CONCAT(SUBSTRING(@string, 1, @pos-1), SUBSTRING(@string, @pos+1, LEN(@string)))
        END

    RETURN @shuffeld

END 

Calling the function

DECLARE @string NVARCHAR(MAX) = 'abcdefghijklmnonpqrstuvwxyz0123456789!"§$%&/()='
SELECT dbo.shuffle(@string)