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kalikoi

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September 18, 2013 at 1:07 pm

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I have a table as follows
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5
A 11:30 13:30 15 11.30,11.45,12.00,12.15,12.30,12.45,13.00,13.15,13.30
i need the following output
A 11.30
A 11.45
A 12.00
A 12.15
A 12.30
A 12.45
A 13.00
A 13.15
A 13.30
earlier help is highly appreciated

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Dan.Humphries SSChampion Points: 12125 More actions · Answer 1

two links for you to look at

http://codebetter.com/raymondlewallen/2005/10/26/quick-t-sql-to-parse-a-delimited-string/

and

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410(v=sql.105).aspx

Dan

If only I could snap my figures and have all the correct indexes apear and the buffer clean and.... Start day dream here.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 2

kalikoi (9/18/2013)
I have a table as follows
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5
A 11:30 13:30 15 11.30,11.45,12.00,12.15,12.30,12.45,13.00,13.15,13.30
i need the following output
A 11.30
A 11.45
A 12.00
A 12.15
A 12.30
A 12.45
A 13.00
A 13.15
A 13.30
earlier help is highly appreciated

It is nearly impossible to determine what is what from this. Please post ddl (create table statements) and sample data (insert statements).

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

Dan.Humphries (9/18/2013)
two links for you to look at
http://codebetter.com/raymondlewallen/2005/10/26/quick-t-sql-to-parse-a-delimited-string/

I would recommend steering well away from this type of splitter. They perform acceptably for very small datasets, of course it is still a scalar function so the versatility of this is limited. You should take a look at the link in my signature about splitting strings. It is a much better approach than looping.

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Need help? Help us help you.

Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 4

Looking at your original post again I think that Col2, Col3 and Col4 are just noise to the problem? All that really matters here is Col1 and Col5.

Here is an example of what I mean about posting consumable ddl and sample data.

create table #Something

(

Col1 char(1),

col2 char(5),

Col3 char(5),

Col4 int,

Col5 varchar(100)

)

insert #Something

select 'A', '11:30', '13:30', 15, '11.30,11.45,12.00,12.15,12.30,12.45,13.00,13.15,13.30'

To get this data we just need to split the value in Col5. This is easily done using the DelimitedSplit8K function. You can learn more about that function (and find the code for it) by following the link in my signature about splitting strings.

select Col1, x.Item as Col5Values

from #Something

cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(Col5, ',') x

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Need help? Help us help you.

Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

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Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

This post looks really related to this other

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1495877-391-1.aspx

Is it really about different things? or are you deciphering my code?

Luis C.
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004329 More actions · Answer 6

Dan.Humphries (9/18/2013)
two links for you to look at
http://codebetter.com/raymondlewallen/2005/10/26/quick-t-sql-to-parse-a-delimited-string/

Just to reinforce what Sean stated, if you have a splitter function with a WHILE loop or the word BEGIN in it, it should be avoided even if you're "just doing something small".

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________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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