Say I have a query that returns the following
ID SomeValue
1 a,b,c,d
2 e,f,g
Id like to return this as follows:
I know this is an older post but I wanted to add my solution so that I can find it in the future. I had to make a slight tweak to Stephan's Solution to account for values that do NOT contain a delimiter:
DECLARE @yourTable TABLE(ID INT,SomeValue VARCHAR(25));
INSERT INTO @yourTable
VALUES (1,'a,b,c,d'),
(2,'e'),
(3,'f'),
(4,'g,h,i');
WITH CTE
AS
(
SELECT ID,
[xml_val] = CAST('' +
CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(',', SomeValue) > 0
THEN REPLACE(SomeValue,',',' ')
ELSE SomeValue
END + ' ' AS XML)
FROM @yourTable
)
SELECT ID,
[SomeValue] = col.value('.','VARCHAR(100)')
FROM CTE
CROSS APPLY [xml_val].nodes('/t') CA(col)