How can I select from list of values in SQL Server

Question

I have very simple problem that I can\'t solve. I need to do something like this:

select distinct * from (1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 1, 6).

Anybody can

Answer 1

PostgreSQL gives you 2 ways of doing this:

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM (VALUES('a'),('b'),('a'),('v')) AS tbl(col1)

or

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM (select unnest(array['a','b', 'a','v'])) AS tbl(col1)

using array approach you can also do something like this:

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM (select unnest(string_to_array('a;b;c;d;e;f;a;b;d', ';'))) AS tbl(col1)