Generate an integer sequence in MySQL

Question

I need to do a join with a table/result-set/whatever that has the integers n to m inclusive. Is there a trivial way to get that without just buildi

Answer 1

This query generates numbers from 0 to 1023. I believe it would work in any sql database flavor:

select
     i0.i
    +i1.i*2
    +i2.i*4
    +i3.i*8
    +i4.i*16
    +i5.i*32
    +i6.i*64
    +i7.i*128
    +i8.i*256
    +i9.i*512
    as i
from
               (select 0 as i union select 1) as i0
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i1
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i2
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i3
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i4
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i5
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i6
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i7
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i8
    cross join (select 0 as i union select 1) as i9