separate pipe delimited values in SQL Server

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separate pipe delimited values in SQL Server

NewBornDBA2017

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July 19, 2018 at 1:11 pm

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I have a table which contains produce information which is separated by | . I need to separate those values but don't know how. I am wondering if someone can help me with this. Please see attachments for more details.

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Mike01 SSChampion Points: 11395 More actions · Answer 1

Do you have a split string function already? If not you can find one here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/T-SQL/100014/
Then simple call to it

select * from #Commodity cross apply [dbo].[fn_SplitString](Commodity,'|')

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 2

Mike01 - Thursday, July 19, 2018 1:36 PM
Do you have a split string function already? If not you can find one here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/T-SQL/100014/
Then simple call to it
select * from #Commodity cross apply [dbo].[fn_SplitString](Commodity,'|')

Not necessarily the best function. If you aren't using MAX data types, look here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 3

Lynn Pettis - Thursday, July 19, 2018 1:51 PM
Mike01 - Thursday, July 19, 2018 1:36 PM
Do you have a split string function already? If not you can find one here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/T-SQL/100014/
Then simple call to it
select * from #Commodity cross apply [dbo].[fn_SplitString](Commodity,'|')
Not necessarily the best function. If you aren't using MAX data types, look here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Because of the shortcomings of spt_values and the fact that the function concatenates the final delimiter, I'll have to recommend against using the fn_SplitString function. A part of the reason why I rewrote the original DelimitedSplit8K was because of how badly that kind of concatenation slows things down.

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________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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