How to select several hardcoded SQL rows?

Question

If you execute this query

SELECT \'test-a1\' AS name1, \'test-a2\' AS name2

the result will be a one row-selection with two columns having

Answer 1

As of MySQL 8.0.19, it is possible to do

SELECT
    column_0 AS name1,
    column_1 AS name2
FROM
    (VALUES
        ROW('test-a1','test-a2'),
        ROW('test-b1','test-b2'),
        ROW('test-c1','test-c2')
    ) AS hardcodedNames

Which returns

name1   name2
==================
test-a1 test-a2
test-b1 test-b2
test-c1 test-c2

A note on column names

The columns of the table output from VALUES have the implicitly named columns column_0, column_1, column_2, and so on, always beginning with 0.

Documentation here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/values.html.