Separating comma seperated values

  • I would like to pass a column to a function, and have it unioned together with my other data in it's own row... for example given the data:

    CommaColumn ValueColumn1 ValueColumn2

    ----------- ------------ -------------

    ABC,123 1 2

    XYZ, 789 2 3

    I would like to write something like:

    SELECT Split(CommaColumn,',') As SplitValue, ValueColumn1, ValueColumn2 FROM MyTable

    And get back

    SplitValue ValueColumn1 ValueColumn2

    ---------- ------------ ------------

    ABC 1 2

    123 1 2

    XYZ 2 3

    789 2 3

    Is this possible, or has anyone done this before?

  • shashi_1409 (6/18/2013)


    I would like to pass a column to a function, and have it unioned together with my other data in it's own row... for example given the data:

    CommaColumn ValueColumn1 ValueColumn2

    ----------- ------------ -------------

    ABC,123 1 2

    XYZ, 789 2 3

    I would like to write something like:

    SELECT Split(CommaColumn,',') As SplitValue, ValueColumn1, ValueColumn2 FROM MyTable

    And get back

    SplitValue ValueColumn1 ValueColumn2

    ---------- ------------ ------------

    ABC 1 2

    123 1 2

    XYZ 2 3

    789 2 3

    Is this possible, or has anyone done this before?

    Sure no problem. Use the DelimitedSplit8K function.

    select * from

    (Values('ABC,123', 1, 2),

    ('XYZ,789', 2, 3)) x(col1, col2, col3)

    cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(col1, ',') s

    Take a look at the article in my signature about splitting strings.

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