Question

I have a table that has a column named ‘languages’, but it has the following types of values :

english; polish; portuguese; 

.. etc.

I want to split so I can insert it in another table as:

english
polish
portugese

And go on.

I already searched in Google and find this split function:

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Split (@sep char(1), @s varchar(512))
RETURNS table
AS
RETURN (
    WITH Pieces(pn, start, stop) AS (
      SELECT 1, 1, CHARINDEX(@sep, @s)
      UNION ALL
      SELECT pn + 1, stop + 1, CHARINDEX(@sep, @s, stop + 1)
      FROM Pieces
      WHERE stop > 0
    )
    SELECT pn,
      SUBSTRING(@s, start, CASE WHEN stop > 0 THEN stop-start ELSE 512 END) AS s
    FROM Pieces
  )

I already tested it with this :

SELECT * FROM dbo.Split(' ', 'I hate bunnies')

So I tried to adapt this to my case :

INSERT INTO labbd11..language(language) SELECT s FROM dbo.Split(';', disciplinabd..movies.languages) 

Then it gives me this exception:

The multi-part identifier "disciplinabd..movies.languages" could not be bound. Severity 16

Any ideas ?

Best regards,
Valter Henrique.

Answer 1

Use CROSS APPLY

INSERT INTO labbd11..language(language)
SELECT DISTINCT s.s
FROM disciplinabd..movies m
CROSS APPLY dbo.Split(';', m.languages)  S

But if I read your query correctly, you are splitting the languages from ALL movies, and inserting the resultant languages from the movie into the language table (1 column only). Hope this is a test query, otherwise it has no business merit at all.