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  • September 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm

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    Manie, great primer on PatIndex!

    There is hundreds of other ways to use these functions and the way I used here is most probably not the best way so, if anyone out there have any suggestions then I'm always open to new ideas. Do a WHILE loop to strip the months and insert them into one column with multiple rows.

    Ok... here's a suggestion... I'd recommend NOT using a WHILE loop to parse rows. Here's why...

    [font="Arial Black"]The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop.[/font]

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

    [font="Arial Black"]Passing Parameters as (almost) 1, 2, and 3 Dimensional Arrays[/font]

    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)