recursive cte to count subfolders

• Sean Lange

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  December 14, 2011 at 9:24 am

  #1421411

  You're welcome. Glad that worked for you.

  --edit--

  Of course a recursive cte is still row by row processing, it is just done behind the scenes. I don't think in your your case it is going to be too bad because I doubt you are going to get to 10,000 rows let alone the million mark.

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