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Is there a work-around for SQL Server's recursion limit of 32?

  • January 21, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    #75839

    We have a BOM table where the parent and children have a many-to-many relationship. Since each parent can have more than two children, it is not a binary tree. I created a recursive stored procedure that works well in SQL Server 2005 but fails in SQL Server 2000 with an "Invalid cursor state error". I believe that it is due to SQL Server 2000's recursion limit of 32. Does anyone know of a way around this limit?

  • January 21, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    #770277

    may be able to help of u post what u have

  • January 21, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    #770294

    No... cannot change the limit in SQL Server 2000.

    Yes, you can work around it... take a look at "Expanding Hierarchies" in Books Online for details.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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