How to Convert Comma Separated Nvarchar to Table Records in SQL Server 2005

How to convert comma separated NVARCHAR to table records in SQL Server 2005?

Possible duplicate of separate comma separated values and store in table in sql server.

Please try a precise one from Comma-Delimited Value to Table:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_CSVToTable] ( @StringInput VARCHAR(8000), @Delimiter nvarchar(1))
RETURNS @OutputTable TABLE ( [String] VARCHAR(10) )
AS
BEGIN

    DECLARE @String    VARCHAR(10)

    WHILE LEN(@StringInput) > 0
    BEGIN
        SET @String      = LEFT(@StringInput, 
                                ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @StringInput) - 1, -1),
                                LEN(@StringInput)))
        SET @StringInput = SUBSTRING(@StringInput,
                                     ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @StringInput), 0),
                                     LEN(@StringInput)) + 1, LEN(@StringInput))

        INSERT INTO @OutputTable ( [String] )
        VALUES ( @String )
    END

    RETURN
END
GO

Check the requirement in other way using XML:

DECLARE @param NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @param = '1:0,2:1,3:1,4:0'

SELECT 
     Split.a.value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS CVS  
FROM  
(
    SELECT CAST ('<M>' + REPLACE(@param, ',', '</M><M>') + '</M>' AS XML) AS CVS 
) AS A CROSS APPLY CVS.nodes ('/M') AS Split(a)

separate comma separated values and store in table in sql server

You will need to create a split function similar to this:

create FUNCTION [dbo].[Split](@String varchar(MAX), @Delimiter char(1))       
returns @temptable TABLE (items varchar(MAX))       
as       
begin      
    declare @idx int       
    declare @slice varchar(8000)       

    select @idx = 1       
        if len(@String)<1 or @String is null  return       

    while @idx!= 0       
    begin       
        set @idx = charindex(@Delimiter,@String)       
        if @idx!=0       
            set @slice = left(@String,@idx - 1)       
        else       
            set @slice = @String       

        if(len(@slice)>0)  
            insert into @temptable(Items) values(@slice)       

        set @String = right(@String,len(@String) - @idx)       
        if len(@String) = 0 break       
    end   
return 
end;

Then in your stored procedure, you will call the function to split your string:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[spInsertDistributionRuleListType]
(
  @Rule_ID int,
  @ListType_ID int,
  @Values VARCHAR(MAX)=NULL
)
AS
BEGIN

    INSERT INTO DistributionRule_x_ListType (Rule_ID, ListType_ID, Value)
    SELECT @Rule_ID, @ListType_ID, items
    FROM [dbo].[Split] (@Values, ',')  -- call the split function 

END

When you execute the stored procedure, it will split the values and insert the multiple rows into your table:

exec spInsertDistributionRuleListType 1, 2, '319,400,521,8465,2013';

See SQL Fiddle with Demo. This will insert the following result:

| RULE_ID | LISTTYPE_ID | VALUE |
---------------------------------
|       1 |           1 |    10 |
|       1 |           2 |   319 |
|       1 |           2 |   400 |
|       1 |           2 |   521 |
|       1 |           2 |  8465 |
|       1 |           2 |  2013 |

Convert comma delimited string to table or array in sql server 2008 without using dbo.split

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fnSplitString]  ( 
    @string NVARCHAR(MAX), 
    @delimiter CHAR(1)  
    )
    RETURNS
    @output TABLE(splitdata NVARCHAR(MAX)  ) 
    BEGIN 
    DECLARE @start INT, @end INT 
    SELECT @start = 1, @end = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @string) 
    WHILE @start < LEN(@string) + 1
    BEGIN 
        IF @end = 0  
            SET @end = LEN(@string) + 1 

        INSERT INTO @output (splitdata)  
        VALUES(SUBSTRING(@string, @start, @end - @start)) 
        SET @start = @end + 1 
        SET @end = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @string, @start) 

     END 
     RETURN  
     END

Comma-separated value insertion In SQL Server 2005

You need a way to split and process the string in TSQL, there are many ways to do this. This article covers the PROs and CONs of just about every method:

"Arrays and Lists in SQL Server 2005 and Beyond, When Table Value Parameters Do Not Cut it" by Erland Sommarskog

You need to create a split function. This is how a split function can be used:

SELECT
    *
    FROM YourTable                               y
    INNER JOIN dbo.yourSplitFunction(@Parameter) s ON y.ID=s.Value

I prefer the number table approach to split a string in TSQL but there are numerous ways to split strings in SQL Server, see the previous link, which explains the PROs and CONs of each.

For the Numbers Table method to work, you need to do this one time table setup, which will create a table Numbers that contains rows from 1 to 10,000:

SELECT TOP 10000 IDENTITY(int,1,1) AS Number
    INTO Numbers
    FROM sys.objects s1
    CROSS JOIN sys.objects s2
ALTER TABLE Numbers ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Numbers PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (Number)

Once the Numbers table is set up, create this split function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FN_ListToTableRows]
(
     @SplitOn  char(1)      --REQUIRED, the character to split the @List string on
    ,@List     varchar(8000)--REQUIRED, the list to split apart
)
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN 
(
    ----------------
    --SINGLE QUERY-- --this will return empty rows, and row numbers
    ----------------
    SELECT
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY number) AS RowNumber
            ,LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(ListValue, number+1, CHARINDEX(@SplitOn, ListValue, number+1)-number - 1))) AS ListValue
        FROM (
                 SELECT @SplitOn + @List + @SplitOn AS ListValue
             ) AS InnerQuery
            INNER JOIN Numbers n ON n.Number < LEN(InnerQuery.ListValue)
        WHERE SUBSTRING(ListValue, number, 1) = @SplitOn
);
GO 

You can now easily split a CSV string into a table and join on it. To accomplish your task, set up a test table to insert into:

create table YourTable (col1 int, col2 int)

then create your procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE StoredProcedureName
(
     @Params1  int
    ,@Array1   varchar(8000)
    ,@Params2  int
    ,@Array2   varchar(8000)
)
AS 

INSERT INTO YourTable
        (col1, col2)
    SELECT
        a1.ListValue, a2.ListValue
        FROM dbo.FN_ListToTableRows(',',@Array1)            a1
            INNER JOIN dbo.FN_ListToTableRows(',',@Array2)  a2 ON a1.RowNumber=a2.RowNumber
GO

test it out:

exec StoredProcedureName 17,'127,204,110,198',7,'162,170,163,170'
select * from YourTable

OUTPUT:

(4 row(s) affected)
col1        col2
----------- -----------
127         162
204         170
110         163
198         170

(4 row(s) affected)

How to split a comma-separated value to columns

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_split_string_to_column] (
    @string NVARCHAR(MAX),
    @delimiter CHAR(1)
    )
RETURNS @out_put TABLE (
    [column_id] INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL,
    [value] NVARCHAR(MAX)
    )
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @value NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @pos INT = 0,
        @len INT = 0

    SET @string = CASE 
            WHEN RIGHT(@string, 1) != @delimiter
                THEN @string + @delimiter
            ELSE @string
            END

    WHILE CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @string, @pos + 1) > 0
    BEGIN
        SET @len = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @string, @pos + 1) - @pos
        SET @value = SUBSTRING(@string, @pos, @len)

        INSERT INTO @out_put ([value])
        SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(@value)) AS [column]

        SET @pos = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @string, @pos + @len) + 1
    END

    RETURN
END

Comma separated results in SQL

Update (As suggested by @Aaron in the comment)

STRING_AGG is the preferred way of doing this in the modern versions of SQL Server.

Original Answer:

Use FOR XML PATH('') - which is converting the entries to a comma separated string and STUFF() -which is to trim the first comma- as follows Which gives you the same comma separated result

SELECT  STUFF((SELECT  ',' + INSTITUTIONNAME
            FROM EDUCATION EE
            WHERE  EE.STUDENTNUMBER=E.STUDENTNUMBER
            ORDER BY sortOrder
            FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)')
           , 1, LEN(','), '') AS listStr

FROM EDUCATION E
GROUP BY E.STUDENTNUMBER

Here is the FIDDLE

Passing a varchar full of comma delimited values to a SQL Server IN function

Don't use a function that loops to split a string!, my function below will split a string very fast, with no looping!

Before you use my function, you need to set up a "helper" table, you only need to do this one time per database:

CREATE TABLE Numbers
(Number int  NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT PK_Numbers PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (Number ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
DECLARE @x int
SET @x=0
WHILE @x<8000
BEGIN
    SET @x=@x+1
    INSERT INTO Numbers VALUES (@x)
END

use this function to split your string, which does not loop and is very fast:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FN_ListToTable]
(
     @SplitOn              char(1)              --REQUIRED, the character to split the @List string on
    ,@List                 varchar(8000)        --REQUIRED, the list to split apart
)
RETURNS
@ParsedList table
(
    ListValue varchar(500)
)
AS
BEGIN

/**
Takes the given @List string and splits it apart based on the given @SplitOn character.
A table is returned, one row per split item, with a column name "ListValue".
This function workes for fixed or variable lenght items.
Empty and null items will not be included in the results set.


Returns a table, one row per item in the list, with a column name "ListValue"

EXAMPLE:
----------
SELECT * FROM dbo.FN_ListToTable(',','1,12,123,1234,54321,6,A,*,|||,,,,B')

    returns:
        ListValue  
        -----------
        1
        12
        123
        1234
        54321
        6
        A
        *
        |||
        B

        (10 row(s) affected)

**/



----------------
--SINGLE QUERY-- --this will not return empty rows
----------------
INSERT INTO @ParsedList
        (ListValue)
    SELECT
        ListValue
        FROM (SELECT
                  LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(List2, number+1, CHARINDEX(@SplitOn, List2, number+1)-number - 1))) AS ListValue
                  FROM (
                           SELECT @SplitOn + @List + @SplitOn AS List2
                       ) AS dt
                      INNER JOIN Numbers n ON n.Number < LEN(dt.List2)
                  WHERE SUBSTRING(List2, number, 1) = @SplitOn
             ) dt2
        WHERE ListValue IS NOT NULL AND ListValue!=''



RETURN

END --Function FN_ListToTable

you can use this function as a table in a join:

SELECT
    Col1, COl2, Col3...
    FROM  YourTable
        INNER JOIN FN_ListToTable(',',@YourString) s ON  YourTable.ID = s.ListValue

Here is your example:

Select * from sometable where tableid in(SELECT ListValue FROM dbo.FN_ListToTable(',',@Ids) s)

Convert a nvarchar with multiple numbers separated by commas to a set of numeric

You have basically three choices:

• You can use dynamic SQL.
• You can call a split() function of some sort to split the string (there are various implementations on the web).
• You can use like.

(And there are more arcane possibilities in terms of using XML or recursive CTEs for the parsing.)

Here is a way to use like;

where ',' + @Co_Ordenes + ',' like '%,' + cast(T_OrdenAtencion.Co_OrdenAt as varchar(255)) + ',%'

However, this prevents the query from using an index on the Co_OrdenAt column.

Do you have the possibility of storing the list in some other format? For instance, putting the list in in a temporary table would simplify the query and the resulting query could take advantage of available indexes?

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