T-SQL Split Word into characters

Question

I have searched everywhere and I cannot find this implementation anywhere.

Let\'s say I have the word: QWERTY

I want to obtain this table:

Answer 1

Here you have it:

create table #words (
  character varchar(1)
)

declare @test varchar(10)
select @test = 'QWERTY'

declare @count int, @total int
select @total = len(@test), @count = 0

while @count <= @total
begin
  insert into #words select substring(@test, @count, 1)
  select @count = @count + 1
end

select * from #words

drop table #words