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slug: /en/operations/system-tables/numbers
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2022-08-28 13:53:52 +00:00
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2022-06-02 10:55:18 +00:00
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# numbers
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2020-06-18 08:24:31 +00:00
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This table contains a single UInt64 column named `number` that contains almost all the natural numbers starting from zero.
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You can use this table for tests, or if you need to do a brute force search.
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Reads from this table are not parallelized.
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2020-08-06 08:50:29 +00:00
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2020-12-03 19:27:55 +00:00
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**Example**
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```sql
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:) SELECT * FROM system.numbers LIMIT 10;
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```
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```text
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┌─number─┐
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│ 0 │
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│ 1 │
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│ 2 │
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│ 3 │
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│ 4 │
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│ 5 │
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│ 6 │
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│ 7 │
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│ 8 │
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│ 9 │
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└────────┘
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2021-07-29 15:20:55 +00:00
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10 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.
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2020-12-03 19:27:55 +00:00
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```
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2021-09-19 20:05:54 +00:00
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[Original article](https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/system-tables/numbers) <!--hide-->
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