Repeat Rows N Times According to Column Value

Question

I have following table.

Table A:
ID         ProductFK         Quantity       Price
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10         1                  2           100
11         2                  3           150
12         1                  1           120
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I need select that repeat Rows N Time According to Quantity Column Value.

So I need following select result:

ID        ProductFK         Quantity        Price
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10        1                   1          100
10        1                   1          100
11        2                   1          150
11        2                   1          150
11        2                   1          150
12        1                   1          120

Answer 1

You can use a simple JOIN to get the desired result as below:

SELECT  t1.*, t2.number + 1 RepeatNumber
FROM    TableA t1
JOIN    master.dbo.spt_values t2 ON t2.type = 'P' AND t2.number < t1.Quantity

The above query repeats each record by the specified number in Quantity column.

Note for master.dbo.spt_values on type = 'P':
This table is used for getting a series of number which is hard-coded in it by
condition of type = 'P'.

Answer 2

You could do that with a recursive CTE using UNION ALL:

;WITH cte AS
  (
    SELECT * FROM Table1

    UNION ALL

    SELECT cte.[ID], cte.ProductFK, (cte.[Order] - 1) [Order], cte.Price
    FROM cte INNER JOIN Table1 t
      ON cte.[ID] = t.[ID]
    WHERE cte.[Order] > 1
)
SELECT [ID], ProductFK, 1 [Order], Price
FROM cte
ORDER BY 1

Here's a working SQLFiddle.

Here's a longer explanation of this technique.

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Since your input is too large for this recursion, you could use an auxillary table to have "many" dummy rows and then use SELECT TOP([Order]) for each input row (CROSS APPLY):

;WITH E00(N) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1),
      E02(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E00 a, E00 b),
      E04(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E02 a, E02 b),
      E08(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E04 a, E04 b),
      E16(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E08 a, E08 b)
SELECT t.[ID], t.ProductFK, 1 [Order], t.Price
FROM Table1 t CROSS APPLY (
  SELECT TOP(t.[Order]) N
  FROM E16) ca
ORDER BY 1

(The auxillary table is borrowed from here, it allows up to 65536 rows per input row and can be extended if required)

Here's a working SQLFiddle.