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  • June 29, 2009 at 6:09 pm

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    peter (6/29/2009)

    I have a set of comma delimited strings which have between 1 and 100's of invoice records per string (with each invoice record having the same 10 data fields). Your code turns the data into rows with admirable efficiency. However, I can't work out how to transform the results into columns with one row per invoice record. Can anyone help?

    Yes... please see the following.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/cross+tab/65048/

    Also, I'm not sure to whom you are speaking but, just to advise, XML splitters are anything but effecient.

    I'll also caution that once you've "normalized" a CSV, rotating or pivoting it into columns is usually a bad idea for performance reasons if all the columns are basically the same "thing".

    --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.

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