• failrly easy to generate your own table of ascii chars, but i don't understand what you meant by from mulitple columns;

    can you explain what you were after?

    here's one example:

    with Tally (N)

    AS

    ( select top 127 row_number() over (Order By Name) from sys.columns

    )

    select N-1 as CHARVALUE,CHAR(N-1) as ASCIICHAR

    from Tally

    Lowell


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