How to find the boundaries of groups of contiguous sequential numbers?

Question

I have a table with the following definition

CREATE TABLE mytable
  (
     id     INT IDENTITY(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY,
     number BIGINT,
     status INT
  )


        

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments this is a classic gaps and islands problem.

A solution popularized by Itzik Ben Gan is to use the fact that ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY number) - number remains constant within an "island" and cannot appear in multiple islands.

WITH T
     AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY number) - number AS Grp,
                number
         FROM   mytable
         WHERE  status = 0)
SELECT MIN(number) AS [From],
       MAX(number) AS [To]
FROM   T
GROUP  BY Grp
ORDER  BY MIN(number) 

NB: If number is not guaranteed to be unique replace ROW_NUMBER with DENSE_RANK in the code above.