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By Jacob Sebastian, 2012/03/19
The challenge idea is taken from a problem discussed in the MSDN TSQL forum. The database field contains long string with data for Quantity and Parts. The challenge is to parse the data into separate (Quantity and Parts) fields for displaying in a report. The Quantity of Parts is placed before the hyphen (-) and the Part number after the hyphen. If there is more than one part, each part is separated by a semi-colon.
http://beyondrelational.com/puzzles/challenges/112/parse-single-field-into-multiple-fields.aspx
The challenge is to create a query for a report that show expiring material
Cursors are bad! Can this be set based?
A strange T-SQL challenge - At least to me
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