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

In MySQL you could use UNION like this:

SELECT * from 
    (SELECT 2006 AS year UNION
     SELECT 2007 AS year UNION
     SELECT 2008 AS year UNION
    ) AS years