How does a Recursive CTE run, line by line?

Question

I think I\'ve got the format of Recursive CTEs down well enough to write one, but still find myself frustrated to no end that I cannot manually process one (pretend to be th

Answer 1

You were probably wanting this link. No, the anchor is not executed multiple times (it couldn't be, then union all would require that all of the results appear). Details at previous link.