"un-grouping" results

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     I'm looking for a way to pretty much do the opposite of a group by, count statement. Assuming I have a table with the following data:

ID     Quantity


--     --------

1          4
2          3

How would I use a select statement to return the following result set?:

ID
--

1
1
1
1
2
2
2

Where I return a separate row for each id up to the quantity value for that row. I have a solution in place using a temp table and cursor but I figure there must be a better way.

Thanks in advance. Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 15:08:24 CST