Daniel Hutmacher shows a few methods for calculating Fibonacci sequences in T-SQL:
There’s a really nice mathematical way that I found on Stack Overflow, using the golden ratio (from Wikipedia). And it’s actually set-based. I don’t have the requisite mathematical skills to evaluate the correctness or precision. Note that it returns afloat value result, the upside of which is that you can calculate much higher values. The downside is the loss of precision that comes with float.
This is a bit of a brain teaser but if you learn the techniques, they can definitely come in handy in the future. I like the third solution because it’s a reminder that writing code is just as much about understanding the domain as it is understanding the syntax.