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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 09:29:13

Graham writes "I have a db that contains a column named DSCODES. Values in DSCODES are seperated by a comma.

If I run the following command.

select distinct(DSCODES) from DB

The following is returned.

S100,S102,S103
S100,S103,S105

What I would like returned is the following

S100
S102
S103
S105

Is this possible?

Thank you in advance

Graham"

robvolk
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Posted - 2006-04-12 : 09:30:44

Try this:

http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=2652

Other related articles here:

http://www.sqlteam.com/searchresults.asp?SearchTerms=csv

And I know someone wrote a UDF that can do the same thing, but I can't remember where I saw it. Hopefully someone will remember and post it.

khtan
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Posted - 2006-04-13 : 00:51:22

make use of CSVTable() here

madhivanan
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Posted - 2006-04-13 : 03:32:03

>>"I have a db that contains a column named DSCODES. Values in DSCODES are seperated by a comma.

Read about Normalisation
http://www.datamodel.org/NormalizationRules.html

Madhivanan

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