Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cross-Breeding with PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2008, and Oracle

nospam@example.com (Regina Obe) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:35:00 -0500

I've been whining a lot lately about how SQL Server 2008 (and none of the other SQL Server's) have a generate_series() function that I have grown to love in PostgreSQL. Admittedly I've just been too lazy to create one even though its not that difficult of a task.

Simon Greener over at Spatial DBAdvisor heard my whining and I guess got fed up enough to create a generate_series() function for SQL Server 2008. He also has a generate_series function for Oracle too by the way.

Now there are a couple of differences between the way you use it in the 3 databases which are caused by fundamental differences between the architectures of the 3 databases.

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