Alan.B (1/10/2013)
I agree that I should have used a tally table. I've been writing CTE's for counting for awhile and can do so while sleeping. I still fumble around with the tally table and, in this case was in a hury to post my code. I just updated my query to include the tally table as you showed above: 303 reads is now 146 reads. 🙂
You might want to take a look at this article.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/74118/[/url]
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