Make a separate row if a column contains comma-separated value

Question

Let\'s suppose we have a simple select query which return result like below

   FirstName          LastName                     PayScale
   -----------        --         


        

Answer 1

You can write a query as:

DECLARE @employee TABLE (FirstName  VARCHAR(100),
                         LastName   VARCHAR(100),
                         PayScale INT)

INSERT INTO @employee VALUES 
('Craig','L',150000) , 
('Alice,Lisa','simons',100000)



SELECT Split.a.value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS FirstName  , LastName  ,PayScale
       FROM  (SELECT  CAST ('' + REPLACE(FirstName, ',', '') + '' 
                             AS XML) AS FirstName ,  LastName    ,PayScale
               FROM  @employee) 
       AS A 
CROSS APPLY FirstName.nodes ('/M') AS Split(a)