Split one long comma string into multi column new table

Question

I am newish to SQL to please excuse any ignorance. I have a table, called \'temp\' that contains one Field with one long comma seperated string, thus:

Field1
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Answer 1

Try this

;WITH Split_Fields (Field, xmlfields)
AS
(
    SELECT Field1 AS Field,
    CONVERT(XML,''  
    + REPLACE(Field1,',', '') + '') AS xmlfields
      FROM Table1
)

 SELECT Field,      
 xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[1]','varchar(100)') AS Field1,    
 xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[2]','varchar(100)') AS Field2,
 xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[3]','varchar(100)') AS Field3,    
 xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[4]','varchar(100)') AS Field4,
 xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[5]','varchar(100)') AS Field5
 FROM Split_Fields

SQLFiddle Demo

OR

SELECT Field,
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[1]','varchar(100)') AS Field1, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[2]','varchar(100)') AS Field2, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[3]','varchar(100)') AS Field3, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[4]','varchar(100)') AS Field4, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[5]','varchar(100)') AS Field5 
FROM 
(
SELECT 
Field1 AS Field
,CONVERT(XML,'' + REPLACE(Field1,',', '') + '') AS xmlfields 
FROM Table1
) Split_Fields

To insert into another table (ex: Detail) try below

;WITH Split_Fields (Field, xmlfields)
AS
( 
SELECT 
Field1 AS Field
,CONVERT(XML,'' + REPLACE(Field1,',', '') + '') AS xmlfields 
FROM Table1
) 

INSERT INTO Detail
SELECT 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[1]','varchar(100)') AS Field1, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[2]','varchar(100)') AS Field2, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[3]','varchar(100)') AS Field3, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[4]','varchar(100)') AS Field4, 
xmlfields.value('/Fields[1]/field[5]','varchar(100)') AS Field5 
FROM Split_Fields