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

Please, PLEASE avoid referencing systems tables, specifically system tables in system databases. In fact, the selected answer above probably won't compile in a Visual Studio 2013 Database Project

Table variables are fine, but recursion with a CTE is the answer:

DECLARE @str VARCHAR(max)
SET @str = 'QWERTY AnotherWord'
WITH Split(stpos,endpos)
AS(
SELECT 1 AS stpos, 2 AS endpos
UNION ALL
SELECT endpos, endpos+1
FROM Split
WHERE endpos <= LEN(@str)
)
SELECT 
    'character' = SUBSTRING(@str,stpos,COALESCE(NULLIF(endpos,0),LEN(@str)+1)-stpos)
   ,'charindex' = stpos
FROM Split

That said, the use for the code above is to get a table full of letters representing different permissions for a user. That is not the way to do this. Make a table with an ID, a permission code and a description then make a linking table between the users table and the new permissions table. this gives you the same abilities and doesn't make you solve dumb problems like this.