Split mutiple values from column into seperate columns

Question

I have a table with a column that has multiple values stored in one column I want to query that data to a file and separate the values.

Example: This column (SHIFT_LENGTHS) has values stored as a concatenate of each day of the week with "#" as a separator which represents seconds for day of the week.

SELECT 
  NAME
 ,SHIFT_LENGTHS
FROM SHIFTGUARANTEE
ORDER BY NAME

SQL Results

NAME  ,SHIFT_LENGTHS
Shift1,#14400#14400#14400#14400#14400#14400#14400#

I want to query the data and present it in a file this way:

NAME  ,Mon  ,Tue  ,Wed  ,Thu  ,Fri  ,Sat  ,Sun
Shift1,14400,14400,14400,14400,14400,14400,14400

Answer 1

If the format of the string is fixed as it seems to be you could just parse it using the substring function:

SELECT 
  NAME
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 2, 5) mon
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 8, 5) tue
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 14, 5) wed
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 20, 5) thu
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 26, 5) fri
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 32, 5) sat
 ,SUBSTRING(SHIFT_LENGTHS, 38, 5) sun
FROM SHIFTGUARANTEE
ORDER BY NAME

If the format isn't fixed you can use the charindex function to get the indexes of the separators, or a custom CLR regex function.

There's also a good solution using cross apply in the answers to another question: How to split a comma-separated value to columns