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What is the purpose of system table table master..spt_values and what are the meanings of its values?
Why (and how) to split column using master..spt_values?
I have some dynamic SQL, I have this lines that will be executed, whats the meaning of spt_values, and the type='P'
declare @Sql nvarchar(max)
select @Sql = ISNULL(@sql + ',', '') + QUOTENAME(RIGHT(number,10))
from master..spt_values
where type='P' and number between 1 and (select COUNT(*) From tableName)
spt_valuesis a table in themasterdatabase. As such, it’s meant for internal SQL Server use only, and is undocumented to the public.Basically the code you’ve got is a quick way to get your hands on a resultset of numbers.