Please Give Me the Query For Below Mentioned Resultant Tables.

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Please Give Me the Query For Below Mentioned Resultant Tables.

venkidesaik

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July 20, 2012 at 5:46 am

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Hi All,
I have two tables for example,
tblCategories(CategoryID[INT],CategoryName[VARCHAR])
tblEmployees(EmployeeID[INT],EmployeeName[VARCHAR],CategoryIDs[VARCHAR])
Example OUTPUT Like,
tblCategories:
CategoryID CategoryName
1 AAA
2 BBB
3 CCC
tblEmployees:
EmployeeID EmployeeName CategoryIDs
1 XXX 1,3
2 YYY 2,3
3 ZZZ 1,2
I want to join both the tables & i want to get the result
is it possible?if it is possible how to join the table
Please give me the query
& also result for me.
Thanks In Advance,
Venkatesh.

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 1

nice first post, you provided quite a bit of info.

my first point, is in the future, if you can provide your data as CREATE TABLE / INSERT INTO statements like this, anyone can easily see your data and provide test scripts for you:

drop table tblEmployees

drop table tblCategories

CREATE TABLE tblCategories(CategoryID[INT],CategoryName[VARCHAR](30))

CREATE TABLE tblEmployees(EmployeeID[INT],EmployeeName[VARCHAR](30),CategoryIDs[VARCHAR](30))

INSERT INTO tblCategories( CategoryID,CategoryName)

SELECT '1','AAA' UNION ALL

SELECT '2','BBB' UNION ALL

SELECT '3','CCC'

INSERT INTO tblEmployees(EmployeeID,EmployeeName,CategoryIDs)

SELECT '1','XXX','1,3' UNION ALL

SELECT '2','YYY','2,3' UNION ALL

SELECT '3','ZZZ','1,2'

Next, you want to avoid storing multiple values in a single column, otherwise you run into problems like you are having now.

instead of having '1,2' as a varchar field in a row, you should have two rows in the table, both with foreign keys to the category instead.

a work around for that is to use the DelimitedSpilt8K splitter function here on SSC:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/

with that function, you can split that comma-delimited list into seperate rows (like they should have been)

SELECT * FROM tblEmployees

cross apply master.dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(CategoryIDs,',')

then using those results as a sub query, you could join them on category:

select * from tblCategories

LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT * FROM tblEmployees

cross apply master.dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(CategoryIDs,',')

) MyAlias

On tblCategories.CategoryID = MyAlias.Item

hope that helps get you started.

Lowell

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venkidesaik Right there with Babe Points: 785 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for replying Boss for my question....

Its working fine thanks a lot.

SWATH Old Hand Points: 303 More actions · Answer 3

we can do without using master.dbo.DelimitedSplit8K()

SELECT A.employeeid,A.employeename,B.categoryname,C.categoryname FROM

(

SELECT employeeid,employeename,

SUBSTRING(categoryids,1,CHARINDEX(',',categoryids)-1) categoryid1,

SUBSTRING(categoryids,CHARINDEX(',',categoryids)+1,LEN(categoryids)) categoryid2

FROM

tblemployees

)A

INNER JOIN

tblcategories B ON A.categoryid1=B.categoryid

INNER JOIN

tblcategories C ON A.categoryid2=C.categoryid

i hope this will be useful to someone:-)

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 4

swathi that's a great way to show an alternate solution.

The only thing that bothers me is that solution only works if there are only 9 categories, 1-9, since you are assuming a single digit category Id;

As soon as he has more categories than that, he'll need to rewrite it.

Lowell

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SWATH Old Hand Points: 303 More actions · Answer 5

Hi Lowell

thank you

I am quite new to SQL SERVER.I didn't understand your solution for this. my question is where can i find delimitedsplit8k()

function?and how can i use it? could you please explain it

Thanks& Regards

Swathi

SWATH Old Hand Points: 303 More actions · Answer 6

Can I use below function instead of DelimitedSplit8K() function

CREATE FUNCTION SPLIT

(

@RowData nvarchar(2000),

@SplitOn nvarchar(5)

)

RETURNS @RtnValue table

(

Id int identity(1,1),

Data nvarchar(100)

)

AS

BEGIN

Declare @Cnt int

Set @Cnt = 1

While (Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)>0)

Begin

Insert Into @RtnValue (data)

Select

Data = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@RowData,1,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)-1)))

Set @RowData = Substring(@RowData,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)+1,len(@RowData))

Set @Cnt = @Cnt + 1

End

Insert Into @RtnValue (data)

Select Data = ltrim(rtrim(@RowData))

Return

END

and required query is

select * from tblCategories

LEFT JOIN ( SELECT * FROM tblEmployees

cross apply dbo.SPLIT(CategoryIDs,',')

) A

On tblCategories.CategoryID = A.DATA

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86948 More actions · Answer 7

swathi nareddy (9/6/2012)
Can I use below function instead of DelimitedSplit8K() function
CREATE FUNCTION SPLIT
(
@RowData nvarchar(2000),
@SplitOn nvarchar(5)
)
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(
Id int identity(1,1),
Data nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
Declare @Cnt int
Set @Cnt = 1
While (Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)>0)
Begin
Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
Select
Data = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@RowData,1,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)-1)))
Set @RowData = Substring(@RowData,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)+1,len(@RowData))
Set @Cnt = @Cnt + 1
End
Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
Select Data = ltrim(rtrim(@RowData))
Return
END
and required query is
select * from tblCategories
LEFT JOIN ( SELECT * FROM tblEmployees
cross apply dbo.SPLIT(CategoryIDs,',')
) A
On tblCategories.CategoryID = A.DATA

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saltpepo Old Hand Points: 396 More actions · Answer 8

We can also use comma separted list to a table instead of DelimitedSplit8K function.Both function would produce same results

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[SplitList]

(

@List nvarchar(max),

@SplitOn nvarchar(5)

)

RETURNS @RtnValue table

(

Id int identity(1,1),

Value nvarchar(100)

)

AS

BEGIN

While (Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)>0)

Begin

Insert Into @RtnValue (value)

Select

Value = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@List,1,Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)-1)))

Set @List = Substring(@List,Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)+len(@SplitOn),len(@List))

End

Insert Into @RtnValue (Value)

Select Value = ltrim(rtrim(@List))

Return

END