SQL SELECT to get the first N positive integers

Question

I need to get a result set containing the first N positive integers. Is it possible to use only standard SQL SELECT statement to get them (without any count table provided)?

Answer 1

If your database supports analytic windowing functions the following is simple works really well:

SELECT  row_number() over (partition by 1 order by 1) numbers
FROM SOME_TABLE
LIMIT 2700;

This statement returns a set of numbers from 1 to 2700.