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Split a string using REGEXP and CONNECT BY...

29/11/22 11:42

This one having the advantage of not using the regexp_substr in the where clause,and - when using the techniques on actual tables - to avoid the usage of "prior sys_guid() is not null"

SELECT column_value AS id, REGEXP_SUBSTR('A,B,C,D', '[^,]+', 1, column_value) AS data
FROM DUAL
CROSS JOIN
  TABLE(CAST(MULTiSET(
    SELECT LEVEL FROM DUAL
      CONNECT BY LEVEL <= regexp_count('A,B,C,D', ',') + 1
   ) AS sys.odcinumberlist)
  )
;

Split a string using XMLTABLE

27/09/22 09:56
Yet another way - specific to ORACLE - to split a comma-separated string into a set of rows. More...

Count the number of NULL columns in each row

15/06/22 17:30
SQL is good at processing set of rows, but what about columns…
Here an easy way to count number of nulls in a set of columns per row.More...