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

If you were using Oracle, 'pipelined functions' would be the way to go. Unfortunately, MySQL has no such construct.

Depending on the scale of the numbers you want sets of, I see two simple ways to go : you either populate a temporary table with just the numbers you need (possibly using memory tables populated by a stored procedure) for a single query or, up front, you build a big table that counts from 1 to 1,000,000 and select bounded regions of it.