Make SQL Select same row multiple times - sql

Question

I need to test my mail server. How can I make a Select statement
that selects say ID=5469 a thousand times.

Answer 1

If I get your meaning then a very simple way is to cross join on a derived query on a table with more than 1000 rows in it and put a top 1000 on that. This would duplicate your results 1000 times.
EDIT: As an example (This is MSSQL, I don't know if Access is much different)
SELECT
MyTable.*
FROM
MyTable
CROSS JOIN
(
SELECT TOP 1000
*
FROM
sysobjects
) [BigTable]
WHERE
MyTable.ID = 1234

Answer 2

You can use the UNION ALL statement.
Try something like:
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE ID = 5469
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE ID = 5469
You'd have to repeat the SELECT statement a bunch of times but you could write a bit of VB code in Access to create a dynamic SQL statement and then execute it. Not pretty but it should work.

Answer 3

Create a helper table for this purpose:
JUST_NUMBER(NUM INT primary key)
Insert (with the help of some (VB) script) numbers from 1 to N. Then execute this unjoined query:
SELECT MYTABLE.*
FROM MYTABLE,
JUST_NUMBER
WHERE MYTABLE.ID = 5469
AND JUST_NUMBER.NUM <= 1000

Answer 4

Here's a way of using a recursive common table expression to generate some empty rows, then to cross join them back onto your desired row:
declare #myData table (val int) ;
insert #myData values (666),(888),(777) --some dummy data
;with cte as
(
select 100 as a
union all
select a-1 from cte where a>0
--generate 100 rows, the max recursion depth
)
,someRows as
(
select top 1000 0 a from cte,cte x1,cte x2
--xjoin the hundred rows a few times
--to generate 1030301 rows, then select top n rows
)
select m.* from #myData m,someRows where m.val=666
substitute #myData for your real table, and alter the final predicate to suit.

Answer 5

easy way...
This exists only one row into the DB
sku = 52 , description = Skullcandy Inkd Green ,price = 50,00
Try to relate another table in which has no constraint key to the main table
Original Query
SELECT Prod_SKU , Prod_Descr , Prod_Price FROM dbo.TB_Prod WHERE Prod_SKU = N'52'
The Functional Query ...adding a not related table called 'dbo.TB_Labels'
SELECT TOP ('times') Prod_SKU , Prod_Descr , Prod_Price FROM dbo.TB_Prod,dbo.TB_Labels WHERE Prod_SKU = N'52'

Answer 6

In postgres there is a nice function called generate_series. So in postgreSQL it is as simple as:
select information from test_table, generate_series(1, 1000) where id = 5469
In this way, the query is executed 1000 times.
Example for postgreSQL:
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "uuid-ossp"; --To be able to use function uuid_generate_v4()
--Create a test table
create table test_table (
id serial not null,
uid UUID NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT uid_pk PRIMARY KEY(id));
-- Insert 10000 rows
insert into test_table (uid)
select uuid_generate_v4() from generate_series(1, 10000);
-- Read the data from id=5469 one thousand times
select id, uid, uuid_generate_v4() from test_table, generate_series(1, 1000) where id = 5469;
As you can see in the result below, the data from uid is read 1000 times as confirmed by the generation of a new uuid at every new row.
id |uid |uuid_generate_v4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"5630cd0d-ee47-4d92-9ee3-b373ec04756f"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"ed44b9cb-c57f-4a5b-ac9a-55bd57459c02"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"3428b3e3-3bb2-4e41-b2ca-baa3243024d9"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"7c8faf33-b30c-4bfa-96c8-1313a4f6ce7c"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"b589fd8a-fec2-4971-95e1-283a31443d73"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"8b9ab121-caa4-4015-83f5-0c2911a58640"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"7ef63128-b17c-4188-8056-c99035e16c11"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"5bdc7425-e14c-4c85-a25e-d99b27ae8b9f"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"9bbd260b-8b83-4fa5-9104-6fc3495f68f3"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"c1f759e1-c673-41ef-b009-51fed587353c"
5469|"10791df5-ab72-43b6-b0a5-6b128518e5ee"|"4a70bf2b-ddf5-4c42-9789-5e48e2aec441"
Of course other DBs won't necessarily have the same function but it could be done:
See here.

Answer 7

If your are doing this in sql Server
declare #cnt int
set #cnt = 0
while #cnt < 1000
begin
select '12345'
set #cnt = #cnt + 1
end
select '12345' can be any expression

Answer 8

Repeat rows based on column value of TestTable. First run the Create table and insert statement, then run the following query for the desired result.
This may be another solution:
CREATE TABLE TestTable
(
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),
Col1 varchar(10),
Repeats INT
)
INSERT INTO TESTTABLE
VALUES ('A',2), ('B',4),('C',1),('D',0)
WITH x AS
(
SELECT TOP (SELECT MAX(Repeats)+1 FROM TestTable) rn = ROW_NUMBER()
OVER (ORDER BY [object_id])
FROM sys.all_columns
ORDER BY [object_id]
)
SELECT * FROM x
CROSS JOIN TestTable AS d
WHERE x.rn <= d.Repeats
ORDER BY Col1;

Answer 9

This trick helped me in my requirement.
here, PRODUCTDETAILS is my Datatable
and orderid is my column.
declare #Req_Rows int = 12
;WITH cte AS
(
SELECT 1 AS Number
UNION ALL
SELECT Number + 1 FROM cte WHERE Number < #Req_Rows
)
SELECT PRODUCTDETAILS.*
FROM cte, PRODUCTDETAILS
WHERE PRODUCTDETAILS.orderid = 3

Answer 10

create table #tmp1 (id int, fld varchar(max))
insert into #tmp1 (id, fld)
values (1,'hello!'),(2,'world'),(3,'nice day!')
select * from #tmp1
go
select * from #tmp1 where id=3
go 1000
drop table #tmp1

Answer 11

in sql server try:
print 'wow'
go 5
output:
Beginning execution loop
wow
wow
wow
wow
wow
Batch execution completed 5 times.

Answer 12

The easy way is to create a table with 1000 rows. Let's call it BigTable. Then you would query for the data you want and join it with the big table, like this:
SELECT MyTable.*
FROM MyTable, BigTable
WHERE MyTable.ID = 5469