SQL, Auxiliary table of numbers

Question

For certain types of sql queries, an auxiliary table of numbers can be very useful. It may be created as a table with as many rows as you need for a particular task or as a

Answer 1

This view is super fast and contains all positive int values.

CREATE VIEW dbo.Numbers
WITH SCHEMABINDING
AS
    WITH Int1(z) AS (SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0)
    , Int2(z) AS (SELECT 0 FROM Int1 a CROSS JOIN Int1 b)
    , Int4(z) AS (SELECT 0 FROM Int2 a CROSS JOIN Int2 b)
    , Int8(z) AS (SELECT 0 FROM Int4 a CROSS JOIN Int4 b)
    , Int16(z) AS (SELECT 0 FROM Int8 a CROSS JOIN Int8 b)
    , Int32(z) AS (SELECT TOP 2147483647 0 FROM Int16 a CROSS JOIN Int16 b)
    SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY z) AS n
    FROM Int32
GO