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  • March 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    #1599092

    Sure this isn't too hard using a tally table.

    insert #y

    select #x.DocID, t.N

    from #x

    join tally t on t.N <= #x.pages

    select * from #y

    You can read about a tally table here. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/[/url]

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