Hi I know this is an old post but I had the same problem with SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU12

So as initially mentioned by MG putting the database/s on Recovery...

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

Impresive

Sounds like you need to write a SQL script that will have a cursor that queries the table that has the column holding the string

Then you will have to use...

Hi Eirikur,

Thank you for your message.

The "cost threshold for parallelism" is set to 50, I can see where you are going and I had a data type error...