Why does a Recursive CTE in Transact-SQL require a UNION ALL and not a UNION?
问题 I get that an anchor is necessary, that makes sense. And I know that a UNION ALL is needed, if your recursive CTE doesn't have one, it just doesn't work... but I can't find a good explanation of why that is the case. All the documentation just states that you need it. Why can't we use a UNION instead of a UNION ALL in a recursive query? It seems like it would be a good idea to not include duplicates upon deeper recursion, doesn't it? Something like that should already be working under the