Creating Columns From A Comma Delimited Row

Aug 20, 2007

Hi All

This is my first official post...very exciting:)

OK....

I need to split a string, based on comma delimetrs, into columns of a table.

I am using SQL Server 2005.
The plan is to use webmethods (Integration Software) to receive a flat file, loop through the records in that flat file and during each iteration of the loop call a SQL stored procedure that will split the record, based on comma delimetrs, into columns of a table.

A typical record will look like this:
AP05-07,ACTUAL,ZA01,......

I have looked at some of the past solutions to this type of post, but am battling to understand....

So if its possible, is there a simple way to create a stored procedure that will do this?

Many thanks

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Hi,

I have a complex query where each row in the final dataset is a
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However each product has a number of authors associated with it.
What I
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Authors
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Alexi
2           Dancing
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Products
Table
==============
ProductID
Title

Authors
Table
=============
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Name

Product Authors
Table
=====================
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ProductID

Is this at all
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Thanks

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Hi,

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Code Snippet

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