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GENERATE_SERIES and Data Types

Bill Fellows runs into an issue:

Perfect, now I have a row for each second from midnight to approximately 5.5 hours later. What if my duration need to vary because I’m going to compute these ranges for a number of different scenarios? I should make that 19565 into a variable and let’s overengineer this by making it a bigint.

Things don’t work out quite the way you might have expected there. Read on and see what Bill found and how you can circumvent the problem.