• You can have recursive triggers (which are usually a problem, but can be done if needed) in SQL Server.

    You can have recursive procs in both 2000 and 2005 (might be able to earlier, I don't know since I haven't used those).

    In 2005, there are recursive CTEs, which are CTEs (Common Table Expressions) that reference themselves in a Union All statement.

    However, a view can't reference itself recursively in any version (nor should it). (Note: You can create a view that references itself, but when you try to select from it, you'll get an error.)

    User Defined Functions can reference themselves recursively.

    In all cases, you can run into the max recursion limit.

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