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# Saturday, 01 September 2012

Back in 2006 and 2007 we have defined dbo.Numbers function: Numbers table in SQL Server 2005, Parade of numbers. Such construct is very important in a set based programming. E.g. XPath 2 contains a range expression like this: "1 to 10" to return a sequence of numbers. Unfortunately neither SQL Server 2008 R2, nor SQL Server 2012 support such construct, so dbo.Numbers function is still actual.

After all these years the function evolved a little bit to achieve a better performance. Here is its source:

-- Returns numbers table.
-- Table has a following structure: table(value int not null);
-- value is an integer number that contains numbers from 1 to a specified value.
create function dbo.Numbers
(
  -- Number of rows to return.
  @count int
)
returns table
as
return
  with Number8 as
  (
    select
      *
    from
      (
        values
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0),
          (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0), (0)
      ) N(Value)
  ),
  Number32(Value) as
  (
    select
      0
    from
      Number8 N1
      left join
      Number8 N2
      on
        @count > 0x100
      left join
      Number8 N3
      left join
      Number8 N4
      on
        @count > 0x1000000
      on
        @count > 0x10000
  )
  select top(@count) row_number() over(order by @count) Value from Number32;

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