Question

I need to select all numbers N (integers) between @min and @max
Is there any way to achieve that without using a loop of some sort?

Example:
Let’s say @min = 5, @max = 9

I need the following values returned by my SQL query: 5,6,7,8,9

(I’m using MSSQL 2005)

Thanks!!

EDIT:
This is a solution using a custom function, which works fine.
But it seems too much effort having to loop through all numbers manually.
So the question is still, whether it’s achievable without a loop.

CREATE FUNCTION GetAllNBetween
(    
    @Min int,
    @Max int
)
RETURNS @N TABLE(n int)
AS
BEGIN
    WHILE @Min <= @Max
    BEGIN
        INSERT INTO @N VALUES(@Min)
        SET @Min = @Min + 1
    END
    RETURN
END

To be used like this:

SELECT * FROM GetAllNBetween(5, 9)

Answer 1

The query (as suggested by @Eric)

select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY so1.id) from sysobjects so1,sysobjects

Returns the numbers between 1 and ~3000, on my mostly empty test database. You can add another level of sysobjects to get an insane number of rows. Then it’s a simple matter of filtering this