Cursor vs Recursive CTE

This article examines how tempdb is affected by recursive queries, using a few different methods.

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Usage of CTE - Trick with Dates

This article exlores the usage of CTEs as a replacement to cursors in order to generate additional data by applying logic to existing data.

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In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin

I run this code:

SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;

What are the results?