No sane person would even consider using SQL Server to construct a list of prime numbers. So just to prove that I’m not sane (as if there could be any doubt!), this post will be about finding prime numbers.   First a bit of history. Ward Pond wrote about efficient ways to populate a table with one million GUIDs. I posted a comment with a ...

A recurring question in the newsgroups is: “How do I output unrelated rows side by side?”   I’ll use the AdventureWorks database as an example. Suppose that my manager wants a report listing, for each order, all products ordered and all reasons the customer has for ordering from AdventureWorks. Here’s a sample of how the report should ...