While on HackerRank puzzles, I came through a question to find out prime numbers in SQL Server. Here is my try as below. You may try your own and share the code in the comment.

declare @max INT = 1000,@s varchar(max) =''

;WITH Tally_Numbers(n) AS
(
    SELECT 2
    UNION ALL
    SELECT n+1 FROM Tally_Numbers WHERE n <= @max
)
,cte1 as(
select Tally1.n 
from Tally_Numbers Tally1
where not exists (select 1 from Tally_Numbers Tally2 where Tally2.n < Tally1.n AND Tally1.n % Tally2.n = 0)
)
SELECT STUFF((
SELECT '&' + CAST(r.N AS VARCHAR(10)) AS "text()"
FROM cte1 r
ORDER BY r.N
FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE).value('./text()[1]','VARCHAR(8000)'),1,1,'')
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0);

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