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Generate a set or sequence without loops – part 1
There are many use cases for generating a sequence of values in SQL Server. I'm not talking about a persisted IDENTITY column (or the new SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012), but rather a transient set to be...
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Generate a set or sequence without loops – part 2
In my previous post, I talked about ways to generate a sequence of contiguous numbers from 1 to 1,000. Now I'd like to talk about the next levels of scale: generating sets of 50,000 and 1,000,000...
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Generate a set or sequence without loops – part 3
Earlier in this series (Part 1 | Part 2) we talked about generating a series of numbers using various techniques. While interesting, and useful in some scenarios, a more practical application is to...
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