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Recursive CTE

  • April 27, 2011 at 3:03 am

    #238476

    Can someone explain how the below result arrives please ?

    with CTE(x)as

    (

    select x = 1

    union all

    select X=X+1 from CTE where x < 4

    union all

    select X=X+1 from CTE where x < 4

    )

    select x from CTE

    GO

    Result:

    x

    1

    2

    2

    3

    3

    4

    4

    4

    4

    3

    3

    4

    4

    4

    4

  • April 27, 2011 at 4:49 am

    #1316465

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please. Direct replies to: http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1099236-391-1.aspx

    Thanks
    Parthi

  • April 27, 2011 at 5:01 am

    #1316468

    Edit: Moved here.

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  • April 27, 2011 at 5:35 am

    #1316481

    Yes Chris, appologies.

    I thought i had posted in the wrong category so posted under T-SQL too.

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