Generate numbers 1 to 1000000 in MS Access using SQL - sql

Question

I am looking for a simple clean method to obtain the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,...,1000000} in MS Access SQL. I thought of creating a table with a column that numbers from 1 to 100000 however, this is inefficient.
Is there a way of generating numbers 1 to 10000000 in MS Access using SQL?
I tried the GENERATE_SERIES() function but MS Access SQL does not support this function.
id | number
------------
1. | 1
2. | 2
3. | 3
4. | 4
5. | 5
6. | 6
7. | 7
8. | 8

Answer 1

Yes, and it is not painfull - use a Cartesian query.
First, create a small query returning 10 records:
SELECT
DISTINCT Abs([id] Mod 10) AS N
FROM
MSysObjects;
Save it as Ten.
Then run this simple query:
SELECT
[Ten_0].[N]+[Ten_1].[N]*10+[Ten_2].[N]*100+[Ten_3].[N]*1000+[Ten_4].[N]*10000+[Ten_5].[N]*100000 AS Id
FROM
Ten AS Ten_0,
Ten AS Ten_1,
Ten AS Ten_2,
Ten AS Ten_3,
Ten AS Ten_4,
Ten AS Ten_5
which, in two seconds, will return Id from 0 to 999999.

Answer 2

Very painful but you can do the following:
create table numbers (
id int autoincrement,
number int
);
-- 1 row
insert into numbers (number) values (1);
-- 2 rows
insert into numbers (number) select number from numbers;
-- 4 rows
insert into numbers (number) select number from numbers;
-- 8 rows
insert into numbers (number) select number from numbers;
-- repeat a total of 20 times
The value of number is always 1, but id increments. You can make them equal using an update:
update numbers
set number = id;

Answer 3

If this were SQL server you could use a recursive CTE to do this.
WITH number
AS
(
SELECT num = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT num + 1
from number
where num < 1000000
)
SELECT num FROM number
option(maxrecursion 0)
But you are asking about MS Access, since access does not support recursive CTEs, you can try doing it with a macro and insert it into a table and read it out?