Question: How can I view all the character values based on the ASCII character number values?
I can do something like : SELECT CHAR(65) and return "A" - but I'd like to list out all the characters.
Answer: This examples uses ASCII and CHAR to print ASCII values
The Microsoft doc quotes CHAR as " Returns the single-byte character with the specified integer code, as defined by the character set and encoding of the default collation of the current database"
;WITH NumberValues AS
(
SELECT 1 AS Number
UNION ALL
SELECT Number+1
FROM NumberValues
WHERE Number<255
)
SELECT Number,CHAR(Number) as CharacterValue FROM NumberValues
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 255)
If you execute this on a sql server , you'll get back 255 rows with the relevant characters associated with the ASCII character number values
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