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Steven Willis

Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:29 AM

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I've been using Jeff Moden's procedures and a tally table for years. The function in the OP is not the correct way to split CSVs, with the possible exception of a quick-and-dirty one time application for someone in a hurry who has never used CTEs before. But it's not that hard and if you've had to do it once, it's likely you'll have to do it again sometime.

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Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:32 AM

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Just switched to WayneS' non-RBAR function. Now that's FAST!

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Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:12 AM

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WayneS (11/30/2010)

The latest (and fastest) Delimited String Splitter Function can be found here.

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Posted Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:51 AM

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chris-860960 (11/30/2010)

Just switched to WayneS' non-RBAR function. Now that's FAST!

It's not "my" function - it comes from Jeff Moden. It's just what is in use around here, with little tweaks here and there to make it as fast as it possible can be.

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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 5:35 AM

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Hello,

Would you happen to have any suggestions on how to do the opposite, take a result set and create one line csv file. Example 20 lines of data are returned in a result set displaying the total # of Available hospital beds. How can I get the 20 lines of data on one csv line. any help or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 5:57 AM

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TurnerC,

Someone will probably point out a much better way of doing this but getting a single column of multiple records into a comma-separated string can be done thusly:

SELECT STUFF((SELECT ',' + CAST(TableName.NumBeds AS varchar) FROM TableName FOR XML PATH('')),1, 2, '') AS CSVColumn

You have to CAST any output fields as strings (as long as they aren't already, I'm presuming your Number of Beds field would be an integer) for it to work.

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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 6:08 AM

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Thank you for your reply. I will try it out.

Would you happen to know if there are performance issues with using Coalesce. I read an article on how to creat a csv file using Coalesce. I am just unsure about the performance side.

Thank you

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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 6:40 AM

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Would the COALESCE be this sort of query?:

DECLARE @EmployeeList varchar(100)
SELECT @EmployeeList = COALESCE(@EmployeeList + ', ', '') + CAST(Emp_UniqueID AS varchar(5))
FROM SalesCallsEmployees
WHERE SalCal_UniqueID = 1
SELECT @EmployeeList

In my experience COALESCE can be a bit of a performance hit. Certainly the above on one of my database columns (varchar(255)) with 22,000+ records the above is about 3-4 times slower than the STUFF...XML method.

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WayneS (12/1/2010)

chris-860960 (11/30/2010)

Just switched to WayneS' non-RBAR function. Now that's FAST!

It's not "my" function - it comes from Jeff Moden. It's just what is in use around here, with little tweaks here and there to make it as fast as it possible can be.

Thanks for the kudo but it's not my original idea, either. It's an assembly of good practice from many authors with many lessons learned. Many others have have put together similar functions.

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