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copied!<p>The solution Madhivanan's link refers to is very creative, but I had a slight problem with it on SQL Server 2012 related to the name of one of the columns (Start). I've modified the code in his answer to use <code>StartPos</code> instead of <code>Start</code> for the column name.</p> <p>I was not familiar with the system procedure <code>spt_values</code>, but I found a very informative <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4273978/why-and-how-to-split-column-using-master-spt-values">description of the procedure here on SO</a> for those who are interested in exactly how this solution works.</p> <p>Finally, here's the (slightly) revised code from Madhivana's answer:</p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE #test(id int, data varchar(100)) INSERT INTO #test VALUES (1,'This,is,a,test,string') INSERT INTO #test VALUES (2,'See,if,it,can,be,split,into,many,columns') DECLARE @pivot varchar(8000) DECLARE @select varchar(8000) SELECT @pivot = COALESCE(@pivot + ',', '') + '[col' + CAST(number + 1 AS VARCHAR(10)) + ']' FROM master..spt_values WHERE type = 'p' AND number <= ( SELECT MAX(LEN(data) - LEN(REPLACE(data, ',', ''))) FROM #test ) SELECT @select = ' select p.* from ( select id,substring(data, StartPos+2, endPos-StartPos-2) as token, ''col''+cast(row_number() over(partition by id order by StartPos) as varchar(10)) as n from ( select id, data, n as StartPos, charindex('','',data,n+2) endPos from (select number as n from master..spt_values where type=''p'') num cross join ( select id, '','' + data +'','' as data from #test ) m where n < len(data)-1 and substring(data,n+1,1) = '','') as data ) pvt Pivot ( max(token)for n in (' + @pivot + '))p' EXEC(@select) DROP TABLE #test </code></pre>

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