RE: TSQL that lists all numbers from 1..100

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February 20, 2012 at 5:55 am

GPO (2/20/2012)
Who was the first person to come up with this (Jeff's) idea in the context of SQL Server? Was it Itzik Ben-Gan?

Yes, it was Ben-Gan. He used a binary set of CTE's instead of a decimal set like many of us do here. If you'd like to see a comparison of some methods for counting, please see the following article.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/74118/

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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