Fun with T-SQL
Microsoft T-SQL now offers recursion using CTEs and geometry primitives. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you mix graphics and recursion?
Fractals
These are all done using SQL Server 2008. They run direct in SQL Management Studio, and don't need any pre-existing database objects.
- Swaying tree fractal
- Dragon Curve
- Julia set
- Mandelbrot set
- Sierpinski's gasket
- Classic snowflake fractal
- Square tree fractal
SQL XML
- Drawing a visual XML tree in T-SQL
- Concatenate table of strings into single string in T-SQL without cursors
- Convert XML string to parent-child table of elements in T-SQL
- Convert parent-child hierarchy table to XML in T-SQL
- Convert parent-child hierarchy table to XML with indentation
