Hi,
I have a table with data as below.
NO ID
-- ------
1 baca
2 ada
3 ebe
4 ec
select column ID between 1 and 4.then pass each
row of ID column into below function as
select distinct Val from dbo.ParseValues('baca','')
where Val !=''
CREATE FUNCTION ParseValues1
(@String varchar(8000), @Delimiter varchar(10) )
RETURNS @RESULTS TABLE (ID int identity(1,1), Val varchar(50))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Value varchar(100)
WHILE @String is not null
BEGIN
SELECT @Value=CASE WHEN PATINDEX('%'+@Delimiter+'%',@String) >0 THEN LEFT(@String,PATINDEX('%'+@Delimiter+'%',@String)-1) ELSE @String END, @String=CASE WHEN PATINDEX('%'+@Delimiter+'%',@String) >0 THEN SUBSTRING(@String,PATINDEX('%'+@Delimiter+'%',@String)+LEN(@Delimiter),LEN(@String)) ELSE NULL END
INSERT INTO @RESULTS (Val)
SELECT @Value
END
RETURN
END
it give distinct ID from each row.
then combine each row result into a table and get result table as below
ID
--
b
a
c
a
d
e
b
then, finally find distinct count of ID column as 5(a,b,c,d,e).
how to write a stored procedure for getting above result?
thanks.