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  • August 30, 2008 at 9:48 am

    #865377

    I gotto go with Jack on this one... use a Tally table instead of a While loop. In fact, here's an article on what a Tally table is and how it can be used to replace While loops...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/TSQL/62867/

    The last part of that article tells you how to do a "split".

    For much more detail on how to do both simple split's and how to pass arrays as parameters, here's a different article...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63003/

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    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.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)