Question

I know I can ‘SELECT 5 AS foo’ and get the resultset:

foo

5

(1 row)

…is there any way to ‘SELECT 5,6,7 AS foo’ and get the resultset:

foo

5

6

7

(3 rows)

…I’m well aware that this is not typical DB usage, and any conceivable usage of this is probably better off going w/ a more ordinary technique. More of a technical question.

Note: I know I could use a big gross list of UNIONs — I’m trying to find something else.

Answer 1

this is easy with a number table, here is an example

select number as foo  from master..spt_values where type = 'p' and number between 5 and 7 

or if you want to use in

select number as foo  from master..spt_values where type = 'p' and number in(5,6,7)