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

Values keyword can be used as below.

select * from 
(values ('test-a1', 'test-a2'), ('test-b1', 'test-b2'), ('test-c1', 'test-c2')) x(col1, col2)

Answer 2

You can use a temp table, fill it up with your results and then select from it

create table #tmpAAA (name1 varchar(10), name2 varchar(10))
insert into #tmpAAA (name1, name2) 
values ('test_a', 'test_b'),
       ('test_c', 'test_d'),
       ('test_e', 'test_f'),
       ('test_g', 'test_h'),
       ('test_i', 'test_j');
select * from #tmpAAA;

This will return

name1   name2
==================
test_a  test_b
test_c  test_d
test_e  test_f
test_g  test_h
test_i  test_j