Question

is it possible use own tuples as a source for an JOIN statement?

Here is an example of what I’m looking for:


SELECT u.id, u.name FROM users u
INNER JOIN {{tupl1},{tupel2},{tupel3},...}


Answer 1

In SQL Server 2008 you use the Table Value Constructor.

declare @T table(ID int)
insert into @T values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5)

select *
from @T as T1 
  inner join (
              values (1, 'Row 1'), 
                     (2, 'Row 2')
             ) as T2(ID, Col1)
    on T1.ID = T2.ID