String split column and join to another table

Question

Let\'s say I have 2 tables like this :

Job Offers:

+----+------------+------------+
| ID |    Name    | Categories |
+----+--------         


        

Answer 1

From SQL SERVER 2016 we can use sql inbuilt function STRING_SPLIT as below :

SELECT * FROM JobOffers as j 
outer apply STRING_SPLIT(j.[Categories], ',') s
left join dbo.Categories as c on c.CategoryID =s.value