Tricky SQL query requiring search for contains - sql

Question

I have data such as this:
Inventors column in my table
Hundley; Edward; Ana
Isler; Hunsberger
Hunsberger;Hundley
Names are separated by ;. I want to write a SQL query which sums up the count.
Eg. The result should be:
Hundley 2
Isler 1
Hunsberger 2
Edward 1
Ana 1
I could do a group by but this is not a simple group by as you can see. Any ideas/thoughts on how to get this output?
Edit: Changed results so it doesn't create any confusion that a row only contains 2 names.

Answer 1

You can take a look at this. I certainly do not recommend this way if you have lots of data, BUT you can do some modifications and use it and it works like a charm!
This is the new code for supporting unlimited splits:
Declare #Table Table (
Name Nvarchar(50)
);
Insert #Table (
Name
) Select 'Hundley; Edward; Anna'
Union Select 'Isler; Hunsberger'
Union Select 'Hunsberger; Hundley'
Union Select 'Anna'
;
With Result (
Part
, Remained
, [Index]
, Level
) As (
Select Case When CharIndex(';', Name, 1) = 0
Then Name
Else Left(Name, CharIndex(';', Name, 1) - 1)
End
, Right(Name, Len(Name) - CharIndex(';', Name, 1))
, CharIndex(';', Name, 1)
, 1
From #Table
Union All
Select LTrim(
Case When CharIndex(';', Remained, 1) = 0
Then Remained
Else Left(Remained, CharIndex(';', Remained, 1) - 1)
End
)
, Right(Remained, Len(Remained) - CharIndex(';', Remained, 1))
, CharIndex(';', Remained, 1)
, Level
+ 1
From Result
Where [Index] <> 0
) Select Part
, Count(*)
From Result
Group By Part
Cheers

Answer 2

;with cte as
(
select 1 as Item, 1 as Start, CHARINDEX(';',inventors, 1) as Split, Inventors from YourInventorsTable
union all
select cte.Item+1, cte.Split+1, nullif(CHARINDEX(';',inventors, cte.Split+1),0), inventors as Split
from cte
where cte.Split<>0
)
select rTRIM(lTRIM(SUBSTRING(inventors, start,isnull(split,len(inventors)+1)-start))), count(*)
from cte
group by rTRIM(lTRIM(SUBSTRING(inventors, start,isnull(split,len(inventors)+1)-start)))

Answer 3

You can create a split function to split the col values
select splittedValues.items,count(splittedValues) from table1
cross apply dbo.split(col1,';') splittedValues
group by splittedValues.items
DEMO in Sql fiddle

Answer 4

first make one function who take your comma or any other operator(;) separated string into one table and by using that temp table, apply GROUP function on that table.
So you will get count for separate value.
"select d.number,count(*) from (select number from dbo.CommaseparedListToTable('Hundley;Edward;Ana;Isler;Hunsberger;Hunsberger;Hundley',';'))d
group by d.number"

Answer 5

declare #text nvarchar(255) = 'Edward; Hundley; AnaIsler; Hunsberger; Hunsberger; Hundley ';
declare #table table(id int identity,name varchar(50));
while #text like '%;%'
Begin
insert into #table (name)
select SUBSTRING(#text,1,charindex(';',#text)-1)
set #text = SUBSTRING(#text, charindex(';',#text)+1,LEN(#text))
end
insert into #table (name)
select #text
select name , count(name ) counts from #table group by name
Output
name count
AnaIsler 1
Hundley 2
Hunsberger 2
Edward 1