How to join to a comma delimited list

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How to join to a comma delimited list

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June 16, 2014 at 2:09 pm

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Hi all,
I have a table:
id pallet color
1 a red,blue
2 b yellow
and function that will split colors:
declare @colors varchar(100) = 'red,blue'
select * from SeparateValues (@colors,',')
will return
red
blue
Question: how do i join to show:
pallet color
a red
a blue
b yellow

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J Livingston SQL SSC Guru Points: 51550 More actions · Answer 1

does your function return id or pallet?...this would possibly provide a "join"

maybe better if you posted create table/insert sample data scripts and your expected results...am sure this will result is a tried and tested answer for you.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 2

You might be looking for something like this:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/comma+separated+list/71700/

Read the article and ask any questions that you might have.

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61136 More actions · Answer 3

rightontarget (6/16/2014)
Hi all,
I have a table:
id pallet color
1 a red,blue
2 b yellow
and function that will split colors:
declare @colors varchar(100) = 'red,blue'
select * from SeparateValues (@colors,',')
will return
red
blue
Question: how do i join to show:
pallet color
a red
a blue
b yellow

I think you are looking for this:

DECLARE @YourTable TABLE

(

id int primary key,

pallet char(1) not null,

color varchar(100) not null

)

INSERT @YourTable (id, pallet, color)

VALUES(1, 'a', 'red,blue'),(2, 'b', 'yellow');

SELECT pallet, Item

FROM @YourTable t

CROSS APPLY SeparateValues(color,',')

Edit: Added SQL Code tag thingee around my solution

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RightOnTarget Hall of Fame Points: 3041 More actions · Answer 4

Thank you.

I also found this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13873701/convert-comma-separated-column-value-to-rows

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 5

rightontarget (6/16/2014)
Thank you.
I also found this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13873701/convert-comma-separated-column-value-to-rows

That uses both an XML conversion and concatenation. That also makes it comparatively slow. Here's a comparison chart for 1,000 CSVs. Consider using the DelimitedSplit8K function found in the "resources" link at the bottom of the following article. The Black line is the new DelimitedSplit8K (and it's actually 10-20% faster than that thanks to an additional change).

--Jeff Moden

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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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