Auxiliary Numbers Table - Populated by CTE (Based on Itzik Ben-Gan)

USE [Auxiliary]
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE  [dbo].[Nums]
([n] [int] NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
 ([n]  ASC ))
GO
;WITH x00(n) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1),
x02 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM x00 a, x00 b),
x04 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM x02 a, x02 b),
x08 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM x04 a, x04 b),
x16 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM x08 a, x08 b),
x32 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM x16 a, x16 b),
cTally (n) AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY n) FROM x32)
 
INSERT INTO Nums(n)
SELECT * from cTally
WHERE n <= 1000000;
GO



 Based on the CTE used here:
http://sqlreportingservicescrystalreports.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/auxilary-cte-of-numbers-sql.html