I have been trying for a while now to return data from the database with the ID(int) values in the following order.
3, 6, 1, 9, 2, 5.
Is there anyway this can be done?
EDIT: Ok i made a bit of a stuff up in my post. the ID's above are just an example.
I am trying to do this dynamically, based around how many records from another table are linked to the record i want to pull out, e.g. i host 3 branches and each branch has a group of shops how would i determine which has the most?
I hope this helps.
Yes, something like this:
select ID from tablename
order by
CASE WHEN ID = 3 THEN 1
WHEN ID = 6 THEN 2
WHEN ID = 1 THEN 3
WHEN ID = 9 THEN 4
WHEN ID = 2 THEN 5
WHEN ID = 5 THEN 6
ELSE 7 END, ID ASC
This will put 3,6,1,9,2,5 and afterwords the other numbers in ascending order.
select cols from table where
order by
case ID when 3 then 0
when 6 then 1
when 1 then 2
when 9 then 3
...
end
You get the idea...
Create a table for the sorting.
CREATE TABLE SortPriority (
SourceID int NULL,
Priority int NULL)
Populate it with the ids and what order they should showup in. Join to the table. and use SortPriority.Priority in your sorting.
You can more easily change the sorting around this way. You would just need to modify the data. You can also later write scripts to populate the table to handle predictable needs in the changing of the sorting.
A split function like this one:
CREATE FUNCTION fnSplit(#str varchar(max), #dlm char(1))
RETURNS #result TABLE (id int, value varchar(50))
AS BEGIN
DECLARE
#id int, #value varchar(50),
#lastpos int, #pos int, #len int;
SET #id = 0;
SET #len = LEN(#str);
SET #lastpos = 1;
SET #pos = CHARINDEX(#dlm, #str + #dlm);
IF #pos <> 0
WHILE 1 = 1 BEGIN
SET #value = SUBSTRING(#str, #lastpos, #pos - #lastpos);
IF #value <> '' BEGIN
SET #id = #id + 1;
INSERT INTO #result VALUES (#id, #value);
END;
IF #pos > #len BREAK;
SET #lastpos = #pos + 1;
SET #pos = CHARINDEX(#dlm, #str + #dlm, #lastpos);
END;
RETURN;
END
would return a row set containing not only the values, but also their indexes within the list. You could then use the function in this way:
SELECT
…
FROM atable t
LEFT JOIN dbo.Split('3,6,1,9,2,5', ',') s ON t.Value = s.Value
ORDER BY
CASE WHEN s.id IS NULL THEN 2147483647 ELSE s.id END
Related
Sample table
Record Number | Filter | Filters_Applied
----------------------------------------------
1 | yes | red, blue
2 | yes | green
3 | no |
4 | yes | red, red, blue
Is it possible to query all records where there are duplicate string values? For example, how could I query to pull record 4 where the string "red" appeared twice? Except in the table that I am dealing with, there are far more string values that can populate in the "filters_applied" column.
CLARIFICATION I am working out of Periscope and pulling data using SQL.
I assume that you have to check that in the logical page.
You can query the table with like '%red%'.
select Filters_Applied from table where Filters_Applied like '%red%';
You will get the data which has red at least one. Then, doing some string analysis in logic page.
In php, You can use the substr_count function to determine the number of occurrences of the string.
//the loop to load db query
while(){
$number= substr_count("Filters_Applied",red);
if($number>1){
echo "this".$Filters_Applied.">1"
}
}
for SQL-SERVER or other versions which can run these functions
Apply this logic
declare #val varchar(100) = 'yellow,blue,white,green'
DECLARE #find varchar(100) = 'green'
select #val = replace(#val,' ','') -- remove spaces
select #val;
select (len(#val)-len(replace(#val,#find,'')))/len(#find) [recurrence]
Create this Function which will parse string into rows and write query as given below. This will works for SQL Server.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[StrParse]
(#delimiter CHAR(1),
#csv NTEXT)
RETURNS #tbl TABLE(Keys NVARCHAR(255))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #len INT
SET #len = Datalength(#csv)
IF NOT #len > 0
RETURN
DECLARE #l INT
DECLARE #m INT
SET #l = 0
SET #m = 0
DECLARE #s VARCHAR(255)
DECLARE #slen INT
WHILE #l <= #len
BEGIN
SET #l = #m + 1--current position
SET #m = Charindex(#delimiter,Substring(#csv,#l + 1,255))--next delimiter or 0
IF #m <> 0
SET #m = #m + #l
--insert #tbl(keys) values(#m)
SELECT #slen = CASE
WHEN #m = 0 THEN 255 --returns the remainder of the string
ELSE #m - #l
END --returns number of characters up to next delimiter
IF #slen > 0
BEGIN
SET #s = Substring(#csv,#l,#slen)
INSERT INTO #tbl
(Keys)
SELECT #s
END
SELECT #l = CASE
WHEN #m = 0 THEN #len + 1 --breaks the loop
ELSE #m + 1
END --sets current position to 1 after next delimiter
END
RETURN
END
GO
CREATE TABLE Table1# (RecordNumber int, [Filter] varchar(5), Filters_Applied varchar(100))
GO
INSERT INTO Table1# VALUES
(1,'yes','red, blue')
,(2,'yes','green')
,(3,'no ','')
,(4,'yes','red, red, blue')
GO
--This query will return what you are expecting
SELECT t.RecordNumber,[Filter],Filters_Applied,ltrim(rtrim(keys)), count(*)NumberOfRows
FROM Table1# t
CROSS APPLY dbo.StrParse (',', t.Filters_Applied)
GROUP BY t.RecordNumber,[Filter],Filters_Applied,ltrim(rtrim(keys)) HAVING count(*) >1
You didn't state your DBMS, but in Postgres this isn't that complicated:
select st.*
from sample_table st
join lateral (
select count(*) <> count(distinct trim(item)) as has_duplicates
from unnest(string_to_array(filters_applied,',')) as t(item)
) x on true
where x.has_duplicates;
Online example: http://rextester.com/TJUGJ44586
With the exception of string_to_array() the above is actually standard SQL
I'm using the following query to insert into a JunctionTable that is used to match 2 tables (Listing & Categories) for a sort of yellowpages directory.
Any given Listing can be attributed 1 or more categories.
The following query is inserting 3 records into my Junction table with 1 problem. I have 3 fields (ID,Junc_LID,Junc_CatID) representative of the ID columns in my two other tables LID being Listing ID and CatID being the Category ID.
Running the query is adding 3 records with 1,2,43,34 in the CatID field rather than inserting 4 times each with a different catID.
So if a user select 10 categories from my web-form. The query should loop 10 times inserting 10 rows into my JunctionTable 1 for each category the user selects. Inputting 1 CatID per insert rather than a string of all the categories comma delimited as it's doing now.
DECLARE #cnt INT = 0;
WHILE #cnt < 3
BEGIN
INSERT INTO BND_ListingJunction_testing (Junc_LID,Junc_CatID)
Values ('[PulledLID]','[CatID]')
SET #cnt = #cnt + 1;
END;
--------------------------------------UPDATE
Here is your query modified for my tokens. It does work but adds some additional inserts into my junction table that I have not idea where they are coming from.
DECLARE #CatIDStr VARCHAR(100) = '[CatID]',#CatID VARCHAR(100) = ''
WHILE LEN(#CatIDStr) > 0
BEGIN
IF CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr) = 0
BEGIN
SET #CatID = #CatIDStr
SET #CatIDStr = ''
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT #CatID = SUBSTRING(#CatIDStr,0,CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr))
SELECT #CatIDStr=SUBSTRING(#CatIDStr,CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr)+1,LEN(#CatIDStr))
END
INSERT INTO BND_ListingJunction_testing (Junc_LID,Junc_CatID)
Values ('[ScopedLID]',#CatID)
END
Rows 1-7 are all from the same insert executed only once.
Try this
DECLARE #CatIDStr VARCHAR(100) = '1,2,43,34',#CatID VARCHAR(100) = ''
DECLARE #PulledLID INT = 1
WHILE LEN(#CatIDStr) > 0
BEGIN
IF CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr) = 0
BEGIN
SET #CatID = #CatIDStr
SET #CatIDStr = ''
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT #CatID = SUBSTRING(#CatIDStr,0,CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr))
SELECT #CatIDStr=SUBSTRING(#CatIDStr,CHARINDEX(',',#CatIDStr)+1,LEN(#CatIDStr))
END
INSERT INTO BND_ListingJunction_testing (Junc_LID,Junc_CatID)
Values (#PulledLID,#CatID)
END
Not really sure how to explain this so I just start with the example.
Say I have a table like this which can include several rows:
id Type Text
1 Test Failure A=123 B=444 C=43343 Error=4 ErroDes=1
I also have a static Error and ErrorDes table which look like this
Id Code Description
1 1 Error1
2 4 Error4
How can I split up the information from the column into seperate fields and also join in the info from the subtables.
Expected result would be something like this:
Type Field1 FieldA FieldB FieldC Error ErrorDes
Test Failure 123 444 43343 Error4 Error1
I used the same table for joining in the example but this is 2 tables in the db.
So to help with this I have a split function in the database.
And if I first split the Text field on "space" and then on "=" I get everything I need (or atleast all the columns in seperate rows)
cross apply dbo.Split(a.Text, ' ') s
cross apply dbo.Split(s.Value, '=') s2
I get "TokenID" and "Value" field back from the split function.
The output from that looks like this:
TokenID Value TokenID Value
1 Failure 1 Failure
2 A=123 1 A
2 A=123 2 123
3 B=444 1 B
3 B=444 2 444
4 C=43343 1 C
4 C=43343 2 43343
5 Error=4 1 Error
5 Error=4 2 4
6 ErrorDes=1 1 ErrorDes
6 ErrorDes=1 2 1
I hope you understand what I ment and can help me how this can be solved.
you can use something like the folowing UDF function to cross apply
create function udf_ReturnTextSplit(#vText varchar(100))
returns #rt table (
Field1 varchar(100),
FieldA varchar(100),
FieldB varchar(100)
) as begin
declare #st varchar(100) = #vText + ' '
declare #sti varchar(100)
declare #stj varchar(100)
insert into #rt (Field1, FieldA, FieldB) values (null, null, null)
declare #i int = charindex(' ', #st)
while #i > 0 begin
set #sti = SUBSTRING(#st, 1, #i)
set #st = substring(#st, #i + 1, 100)
set #i = CHARINDEX('=', #sti)
if #i > 0 begin
set #stj = substring(#sti, #i + 1, 100)
set #sti = substring(#sti, 1, #i - 1)
if #sti = 'A' update #rt set FieldA = #stj
if #sti = 'B' update #rt set FieldB = #stj
end else begin
update #rt set Field1 = #sti
end
set #i = charindex(' ', #st)
end
return
end
go
select * from dbo.udf_ReturnTextSplit('Failure A=123 B=444 C=43343 Error=4 ErroDes=1')
I have a stored procedure which needs a different if condition to work properly.
The procedure has 2 parameter namely, #CategoryID and #ClassID, which basically come from a UI tree view functionality. #CategoryID corresponds to the parent nodes, while #ClassID corresponds to the child nodes.
Based upon the above parameters I need to make a selection(Column Code) from a table which has CategoryID and ClassID as columns.
Now there are 2 scenarios:
Scenario 1
#CategoryID:A
#ClassID:B (which is a child node of CategoryID A)
Result needed: Codes corresponding to only ClassID B, which is basically the intersection
Scenario 2
#CategoryID:A
#ClassID: C (which is not a child node for CategoryID A)
Result needed: Codes corresponding to the CategoryID A, as well as ClassID B, basically a union
The procedure which I wrote gives me correct answer for the second scenario, but the first scenario it fails. Below is my procedure:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[uspGetCodes]
#CategoryID varchar(50),
#ClassID varchar(50)
AS
BEGIN
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE #SQLQuery NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET #SQLQuery=N'SELECT Code FROM dbo.ClassToCategoryMapping WHERE '
IF (#CategoryID IS NULL OR #CategoryID='')
BEGIN
SET #SQLQuery=#SQLQuery + 'ClassId IN ('+#ClassID+')'
PRINT(#SQLQuery)
EXEC(#SQLQuery)
END
ELSE IF (#ClassID IS NULL OR #ClassID='')
BEGIN
SET #SQLQuery=#SQLQuery+'CategoryID IN ('+#CategoryID+')'
PRINT(#SQLQuery)
EXEC(#SQLQuery)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SET #SQLQuery=#SQLQuery+'(CategoryID IN ('+#CategoryID+') OR ClassId IN ('+#ClassID+') )'
PRINT(#SQLQuery)
EXEC(#SQLQuery)
END
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
SELECT ERROR_NUMBER() AS 'ErrorNumber', ERROR_MESSAGE() AS 'ErrorMessage', ERROR_SEVERITY() AS 'ErrorSeverity', ERROR_STATE() AS 'ErrorState', ERROR_LINE() AS 'ErrorLine'
RETURN ERROR_NUMBER()
END CATCH
END
The Last Else part actually does an 'OR', which gives me the union of the Codes for CategoryID's and ClassID's irrespective whether the given ClassID is a child of the given CategoryID or not.
My question over here would be, how to write the condition to achieve both the scenarios.
Latest Sample Data:
Scenario 1
#CategoryId=2,5, #ClassID=10 (Here 10 is the child while 2 is the parent, CategoryID 2 corresponds to ClassID's 10, 11, 12)
Expected Result: 10, 26, 27 (26 and 27 correspond to the CategoryID 5)
Scenario 2
#CategoryID=2, #ClassID=13,15 (13 and 15 is the child of a different parent, CategoryID 2 corresponds to ClassID's 10, 11 ,12)
Expected Result: 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
Data in Table dbo.ClasstoCategoryMapping will be somewhat as below:
CategoryID ClassID Code
2 10 200
2 11 201
2 12 202
5 26 501
5 27 502
6 15 601
6 16 602
6 17 603
7 20 701
7 21 702
7 22 703
I guess I have made my question quite clear, if no then, folks can ask me to edit it. I would be happy to do so. I urge the experts to assist me in this problem. Any pointers too will be quite appreciated.
Regards
Anurag
If I understand the question correctly, what you require in your result set is:
(all supplied classid) + (all classid for supplied categoryid with no matching supplied classid)
That would translate to the following:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[uspGetCodes]
(
#CategoryID varchar(50),
#ClassID varchar(50)
)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT COALESCE(CM.CategoryID, CM2.CategoryID) AS CategoryID,
COALESCE(CM.ClassID, CM2.ClassID) AS ClassID,
COALESCE(CM.Code, CM2.Code) AS Code
--Matched classIDs:
FROM dbo.udfSplitCommaSeparatedIntList(#ClassID) CLAS
JOIN dbo.ClassToCategoryMapping CM
ON CM.ClassId = CLAS.Value
--Unmatched CategoryIDs:
FULL
OUTER
JOIN dbo.udfSplitCommaSeparatedIntList(#CategoryID) CAT
ON CM.CategoryID = CAT.Value
LEFT
JOIN dbo.ClassToCategoryMapping CM2
ON CM.CategoryID IS NULL
AND CM2.CategoryID = CAT.Value
END
I have included Category, Class and Code in the result since its easier to see what's going on, however I guess you only really need code
This makes use of the following function to split the supplied comma separated strings:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udfSplitCommaSeparatedIntList]
(
#Values varchar(50)
)
RETURNS #Result TABLE
(
Value int
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #LengthValues int
SELECT #LengthValues = COALESCE(LEN(#Values), 0)
IF (#LengthValues = 0)
RETURN
DECLARE #StartIndex int
SELECT #StartIndex = 1
DECLARE #CommaIndex int
SELECT #CommaIndex = CHARINDEX(',', #Values, #StartIndex)
DECLARE #Value varchar(50);
WHILE (#CommaIndex > 0)
BEGIN
SELECT #Value = SUBSTRING(#Values, #StartIndex, #CommaIndex - #StartIndex)
INSERT #Result VALUES (#Value)
SELECT #StartIndex = #CommaIndex + 1
SELECT #CommaIndex = CHARINDEX(',', #Values, #StartIndex)
END
SELECT #Value = SUBSTRING(#Values, #StartIndex, LEN(#Values) - #StartIndex + 1)
INSERT #Result VALUES (#Value)
RETURN
END
this is the sample query that can achieve your goal, is this what you want?
DECLARE #SAMPLE TABLE
(
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),
CategoryId INT,
ClassID INT
)
INSERT INTO #sample
VALUES(2,10)
INSERT INTO #sample
VALUES(2,11)
INSERT INTO #sample
VALUES(2,12)
INSERT INTO #sample
VALUES(3,13)
DECLARE #CategoryID INT
DECLARE #ClassID Int
--Play around your parameter(s) here
SET #CategoryID = 2
SET #ClassID = 13
--Snenario 1
--#CategoryId=2, #ClassID=10 (Here 10 is the child while 2 is the parent, CategoryID 2 corresponds to ClassID's 10, 11, 12)
--Expected Result: 10
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM #SAMPLE WHERE CategoryId = #CategoryID AND ClassID = #ClassID)
SELECT ClassID FROM #SAMPLE WHERE CategoryId = #CategoryID AND ClassID = #ClassID
--Scenario 2
--#CategoryID=2, #ClassID=13 (13 is the child of a different parent, CategoryID 2 corresponds to ClassID's 10, 11 ,12)
--Expected Result: 10, 11, 12, 13
ELSE
SELECT ClassID FROM #SAMPLE WHERE ClassID = #ClassID OR CategoryId = #CategoryID
Try this
select * from yourtable
where CategoryId = #CategoryID and ClassID = #ClassID
union
select * from
(
select * from yourtable where ClassID = #ClassID
union
select * from yourtable where CategoryId = #CategoryID
) v
where not exists (select * from yourtable where CategoryId = #CategoryID and ClassID = #ClassID)
UPDATE FOR DELIMITED STRING
If you have a comma delimited string then it is best to use a CLR function to create the table, but you could use a SQL function. Examples of how to do this are easy to find with a Google search... but for reference here is one good article on the subject -> http://www.sqlperformance.com/2012/07/t-sql-queries/split-strings I expect at some point there will be native support on most platforms.
Given that you have a function that returns a table of one column (named ID) of type int, or an empty table on a null input. Note: You may have to have the null return a table with one row containing an invalid value (a value that will never join), say -1.
The code is as simple as this:
SELECT Code
FROM ClassToCategoryMapping
LEFT JOIN MakeTableFromCVS(#CategoryID) AS CatTable
ON CatTable.ID = CategoryID
LEFT JOIN MakeTableFromCVS(#ClassID) AS ClassTable
ON ClassTable.ID = ClassID
WHERE
CASE
WHEN #CatgoryID IS NULL THEN -1 ELSE CatTable.ID
END = ISNULL(CatTable.ID,-1)
AND
CASE
WHEN #ClassID IS NULL THEN -1 ELSE ClassTable.ID
END = ISNULL(ClassTable.ID,-1)
AND
COALESCE(CatTable.ID,ClassTable.ID,-1) != -1
The logic is the same as below. Because the join will vary the values if it is not null we have to use a different trick. Here we use a marker value (in this case -1) to signal the null value. Any value that won't appear in the comma separated list will work as this marker value, remember it must be of the same type.
You don't need dynamic SQL here and you will find SQL server is better at optimizing if you don't use dynamic SQL. In fact, you don't even need an if statement If you can be sure the input is always null you can do this:
SELECT Code
FROM ClassToCategoryMapping
WHERE
How this works
This query checks for both CategoryID and ClassID columns match the incoming parameters but "ignores" the input when they are null by checking the column against itself. This is an handy SQL trick.
Note if you do need to check for empty strings then this will be almost as fast
DECLARE #myCatID varchar(max)
DECLARE #myClassID varchar(max)
SET #myCatID = #CategoryID
SET #myClassID = #ClassID
IF LTRIM(RTRIM(#CategoryID) = '' THEN SET #myCatID = NULL
IF LTRIM(RTRIM(#ClassID) = '' THEN SET #myClassID = NULL
SELECT Code
FROM ClassToCategoryMapping
WHERE CatgoryID = ISNULL(#myCatID,CategoryID)
AND ClassID = ISNULL(#myClassID,ClassID)
You can replace ISNULL() with COALESCE() if you want... they do the same thing in this case.
In my table, I have a varchar column whereby multi-values are stored. An example of my table:
RecNum | Title | Category
-----------------------------------------
wja-2012-000001 | abcdef | 4,6
wja-2012-000002 | qwerty | 1,3,7
wja-2012-000003 | asdffg |
wja-2012-000004 | zxcvbb | 2,7
wja-2012-000005 | ploiuh | 3,4,12
The values in the Category column points to another table.
How can I return the relevant rows if I want to retrieve the rows with value 1,3,5,6,8 in the Category column?
When I tried using IN, I get the 'Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,3,5,6,8' to data type int' error.
Breaking the Categories out into a separate table would be a better design if that's a change you can make... otherwise, you could create a function to split the values into a table of integers like this:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Split(#String varchar(8000), #Delimiter char(1))
returns #temptable TABLE (id int)
as
begin
declare #idx int
declare #slice varchar(8000)
select #idx = 1
if len(#String)<1 or #String is null return
while #idx!= 0
begin
set #idx = charindex(#Delimiter,#String)
if #idx!=0
set #slice = left(#String,#idx - 1)
else
set #slice = #String
if(len(#slice)>0)
insert into #temptable(id) values(convert(int, #slice))
set #String = right(#String,len(#String) - #idx)
if len(#String) = 0 break
end
return
end
Then call it from your query:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE #SomeID IN (SELECT id FROM dbo.Split(Category, ','))
Or if you're looking to provide a list of categories as an input parameter (such as '1,3,5,6,8'), and return all records in your table that contain at least one of these values, you could use a query like this:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE
EXISTS (
select 1
from dbo.Split(Category, ',') s1
join dbo.Split(#SearchValues, ',') s2 ON s1.id = s2.id
)
you can do like this
declare #var varchar(30); set #var='2,3';
exec('select * from category where Category_Id in ('+#var+')')
Try this solution:
CREATE TABLE test4(RecNum varchar(20),Title varchar(10),Category varchar(15))
INSERT INTO test4
VALUES('wja-2012-000001','abcdef','4,6'),
('wja-2012-000002','qwerty','1,3,7'),
('wja-2012-000003','asdffg',null),
('wja-2012-000004','zxcvbb','2,7'),
('wja-2012-000005','ploiuh','3,4,12')
select * from test4
Declare #str varchar(25) = '1,3,5,6,8'
;WITH CTE as (select RecNum,Title,Category from test4)
,CTE1 as (
select RecNum,Title,RIGHT(#str,LEN(#str)-CHARINDEX(',',#str,1)) as rem from CTE where category like '%'+LEFT(#str,1)+'%'
union all
select c.RecNum,c.Title,RIGHT(c1.rem,LEN(c1.rem)-CHARINDEX(',',c1.rem,1)) as rem from CTE1 c1 inner join CTE c
on c.category like '%'+LEFT(c1.rem,1)+'%' and CHARINDEX(',',c1.rem,1)>0
)
select RecNum,Title from CTE1
As mentioned by others, your table design violates basic database design principles and if there is no way around it, you could normalize the table with little code (example below) and then join away with the other table. Here you go:
Data:
CREATE TABLE data(RecNum varchar(20),Title varchar(10),Category varchar(15))
INSERT INTO data
VALUES('wja-2012-000001','abcdef','4,6'),
('wja-2012-000002','qwerty','1,3,7'),
('wja-2012-000003','asdffg',null),
('wja-2012-000004','zxcvbb','2,7'),
('wja-2012-000005','ploiuh','3,4,12')
This function takes a comma separated string and returns a table:
CREATE FUNCTION listToTable (#list nvarchar(MAX))
RETURNS #tbl TABLE (number int NOT NULL) AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #pos int,
#nextpos int,
#valuelen int
SELECT #pos = 0, #nextpos = 1
WHILE #nextpos > 0
BEGIN
SELECT #nextpos = charindex(',', #list, #pos + 1)
SELECT #valuelen = CASE WHEN #nextpos > 0
THEN #nextpos
ELSE len(#list) + 1
END - #pos - 1
INSERT #tbl (number)
VALUES (convert(int, substring(#list, #pos + 1, #valuelen)))
SELECT #pos = #nextpos
END
RETURN
END
Then, you can do something like this to "normalize" the table:
SELECT *
FROM data m
CROSS APPLY listToTable(m.Category) AS t
where Category is not null
And then use the result of the above query to join with the "other" table. For example (i did not test this query):
select * from otherTable a
join listToTable('1,3,5,6,8') b
on a.Category = b.number
join(
SELECT *
FROM data m
CROSS APPLY listToTable(m.Category) AS t
where Category is not null
) c
on a.category = c.number