• Nice example.

    ... 2) The maximum number of levels is 100. This is the limitation of T-SQL. ...

    This is not correct! It is the default recursion limit.

    Values: 0 - 32767

    You can control it by adding :

    SELECT ...

    FROM cte

    OPTION (MAXRECURSION 150);

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