I am a bit perplexed by the article. I buiul a tally table in each of my databases a couple of years ago. Static table, 100K rows, PK. When I initially built it I really did not care if it took 150ms or 1.3 seconds, because it was a one-time thing. A tally table is so useful, it should be part of the SQL installation and be included when a new database is created.

An article on how to use a tally table would have been a lot better than how to create one. Likle it was said, there are a lot of articles that provide a 5-line code solution on how to create it all over the place. No reason to be creating one on the fly every time you need it.