How can I check a group of numbers are consecutive in T-SQL?

Question

If i was to have a table with an integer column containing n number of rows and wanted to check if they were consecutive, how could I do this?

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Answer 1

SELECT CASE
         WHEN COUNT(DISTINCT IntegerValue) /*Or COUNT(*) dependant on how
                                            duplicates should be treated */ 
                =  1 + MAX(IntegerValue) - MIN(IntegerValue) THEN 'Y'
         ELSE 'N'
       END
FROM   @Temp  

If you want to know where the gaps are you can use

;WITH T AS
(
SELECT *,
       DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY IntegerValue) - IntegerValue AS Grp
FROM @Temp
)
SELECT MIN(IntegerValue) AS RangeStart, 
       MAX(IntegerValue) AS RangeEnd
FROM T
GROUP BY Grp
ORDER BY MIN(IntegerValue)