T-SQL: Separate String Into Multiple Columns

Question

Ex.

Column 1:
| word1 word2 word3 word4 |

to

 Col 1:  Col 2:  Col 3:  Col 4:
| word1 | word2 | word3 | word |

Answer 1

How about this?

Create Table AllData (Column0 varchar(500))
Insert Into AllData Values ('word1 word2 word3 word4')
Select parsename(replace(replace(replace([Column0],'  ',' '),'  ',' '),' ','.'), 4) [Col1],
parsename(replace(replace(replace([Column0],'  ',' '),'  ',' '),' ','.'), 3) [Col2],
parsename(replace(replace(replace([Column0],'  ',' '),'  ',' '),' ','.'), 2)  [Col3],  
parsename(replace(replace(replace([Column0],'  ',' '),'  ',' '),' ','.'), 1)   [Col4]

from AllData