Also a few other potential issues.  If there are any gaps in the depth measurements this method won't fill them in.  Also if there are equal thicknesses this method will...

To get the thickness calculation correct it needs to account for the boundary conditions.  Instead of expanding across the entire sequence and then joining (with inequalities) to the resultant intervals...

Thanks Phil.  Interesting maybe.  The real answer is don't use cursors 🙂

Why not store the user's default in the users table?

split the recipe into two parts in the CTE. Part 1 is all the ingredients, weights for everything except the starter UNION ALL (For each ingredient in the Starter,...

A data model to store the recursive relationships and to resolve them with a common table expression could include tables: ingredients, recipes, recipe_inputs, recipe_input_ingredients, recipe_input_recipes.  With recipe_input_recipes you could store...

Out of curiosity, our 2017 box shows a CPU cap of 25% with 4 CPUs which leads me to believe that it's not able to use all 4 CPUs...

Excellent query Jeff.  Thank you, thank you!  Multiplying by 'combo' within the TOP clause is very nice

Well maybe the allocation is unavoidable.  I was hoping for pixie dust or a magic trick 🙂

It's difficult to know much based on the explanation.  The SQL code provided isn't valid SQL Server syntax (afaik) and appears to be embedded strings for which the parameters are...

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Of course, of course ready or not here it comes.  As others have noted AI is quite useful for ginning up boilerplate...

To calculate the points using column values would require to concatenate the string.  Afaik if there are bad values you could use TRY_CAST with the 'geography' data type

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