Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/22/05 00:55

rcamarda (rcamarda@cablespeed.com) writes:
> I have a column that has text delimited by a percent sign that I wish
> to turn into rows.
> Example:
> A column contains ROBERT%CAMARDA, I want to turn that into two rows,
> one row with ROBERT and antoher row with CAMARDA.
> I will have source rows that have zero, one, or many percent sign
> delimiters that will correspond to that many rows (One percent sign
> will create 2 rows, 2 percent signs will create 3 rows and so forth).

Have a look at an article on my web site:
http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html.

Specifically, look at "List-of-strings" and "Unpacking a table column".

You did not say which version of SQL Server you are using. The article
is written for SQL 2000. SQL 2005 provides a new operator CROSS APPLY
which is good for the column bit. In SQL 2000, you will have to run
it row by row.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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