How to select multiple rows filled with constants?

Question

Selecting constants without referring to a table is perfectly legal in an SQL statement:

SELECT 1, 2, 3

The result set that the latter retu

Answer 1

In MySQL, you can do: values (1,2), (3, 4);

mysql> values (1,2), (3, 4);
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+
2 rows in set (0.004 sec)

With MySQL 8, it is also possible to give the column names:

mysql> SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1, 2, 3, 4) AS dt (a, b, c, d);
+---+---+---+---+
| a | b | c | d |
+---+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
+---+---+---+---+