The GO keyword isn’t strictly speaking T-SQL – it’s really just a batch terminator used in Management Studio and other tools. But did you know that you can use GO to run a batch multiple times?

Turns out, GO has an optional numeric argument that specifies how many times you want to repeat the batch.

SELECT GETDATE() AS currentDateTime;
GO 5

With a little bit of imagination, you could for instance use this to replace dreary old WHILE loops, to populate test values into tables or run a stored procedure multiple times to test performance.