RE: Generating number sequences with Common Table Expressions

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October 4, 2011 at 2:53 am

Try option (MAXRECURSION 0).

This is by far the slowest of the CTE-based row (number) generation methods but as your code shows it's very easy to manipulate rCTE's to generate quite complex output.

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