I have a SQL Table like this:
| SomeID | OtherID | Data
+----------------+-------------+-------------------
| abcdef-..... | cdef123-... | 18,20,22
| abcdef-..... | 4554a24-... | 17,19
| 987654-..... | 12324a2-... | 13,19,20
is there a query where I can perform a query like SELECT OtherID, SplitData WHERE SomeID = 'abcdef-.......'
that returns individual rows, like this:
| OtherID | SplitData
+-------------+-------------------
| cdef123-... | 18
| cdef123-... | 20
| cdef123-... | 22
| 4554a24-... | 17
| 4554a24-... | 19
Basically split my data at the comma into individual rows?
I am aware that storing a comma-separated
string into a relational database sounds dumb, but the normal use case in the consumer application makes that really helpful.
I don’t want to do the split in the application as I need paging, so I wanted to explore options before refactoring the whole app.
It’s SQL Server 2008
(non-R2).