Question

Let’s say I have a table with 3 rows — each row contains a CSV and I can guarantee that there will only ever be 1 comma

xxx,111
yyy,222
zzz,333

How could I select the table so that the resulting table has 2 columns as:

xxx    111
yyy    222
zzz    333

I’ve tried SELECT split(item,',') FROM A

But obviously, this won’t work.
Is there a functional way to do this without using cursors?

I’m using SQL Server 2008

Answer 1

There are no easy functional way like split() though. There is a way without using cursors:

SELECT
SUBSTRING(item, 1,
        CHARINDEX(',', item) - 1
    ) AS Field1,
SUBSTRING(item, CHARINDEX(',', item) + 1,
        LEN(item) - CHARINDEX(',', item)
    ) AS Field2
FROM A