Strong MgII Absorption Systems in QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey   Early Data Release
  We have constructed samples of low-ionization metal absorption-line systems selected for the strength of their MgII lambda2796 lines from the SDSS EDR. There are 640 absorption systems in our unbiased sample with lambda2796 REW > 1.0 A detected at 5 sigma and with redshifts 0.37 < z < 2.27. This sample is an order of magnitude larger than previous similarly selected samples. In this contribution, we present preliminary results on the statistical properties of the sample. 
Daniel B. Nestor, Sandhya Rao, David Turnshek (Pittsburgh), and Eric   Furst (Bucknell)