Question

This is in teradata.

For many good reasons, I would like to have a something like the below, where I start by making a CTE that just has a list of literals, and then can refer to it in later statements:

with MyList(num) as(
    'a','b','c','d'
)

select foo from mytable where x in ( select(num) from MyList))

This is a very contrived example, and I know that it would have few applications in reality. But it does get at the question.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Make a query that returns that result:

with MyList(num) as(
  select 'a' union all
  select 'b' union all
  select 'c' union all
  select 'd'
)