I have a question
If I have one row that looks like this
|ordernumber|qty|articlenumber|
| 123125213| 3 |fffff111 |
How can I split this into three rows like this:
|ordernumber|qty|articlenumber|
| 123125213| 1 |fffff111 |
| 123125213| 1 |fffff111 |
| 123125213| 1 |fffff111 |
/J
You can use recursive CTE:
WITH RCTE AS
(
SELECT
ordernumber, qty, articlenumber, qty AS L
FROM Table1
UNION ALL
SELECT
ordernumber, 1, articlenumber, L - 1 AS L
FROM RCTE
WHERE L>0
)
SELECT ordernumber,qty, articlenumber
FROM RCTE WHERE qty = 1
SQLFiddleDEMO
EDIT:
Based on Marek Grzenkowicz's answer and MatBailie's comment, whole new idea:
WITH CTE_Nums AS
(
SELECT MAX(qty) n FROM dbo.Table1
UNION ALL
SELECT n-1 FROM CTE_Nums
WHERE n>1
)
SELECT ordernumber ,
1 AS qty,
articlenumber
FROM dbo.Table1 t1
INNER JOIN CTE_Nums n ON t1.qty >= n.n
Generating number from 1 to max(qty) and join table on it.
SQLFiddle DEMO
Here's a quick hack using an additional table populated with a number of rows suitable for the qty
values you are expecting:
-- helper table
CREATE TABLE qty_splitter (qty int)
INSERT INTO qty_splitter VALUES (1)
INSERT INTO qty_splitter VALUES (2)
INSERT INTO qty_splitter VALUES (3)
INSERT INTO qty_splitter VALUES (4)
INSERT INTO qty_splitter VALUES (5)
....
-- query to produce split rows
SELECT t1.ordernumber, 1, t1.articlenumber
FROM table1 t1
INNER JOIN qty_splitter qs on t.qty >= qs.qty
You can do it using CTE
declare @t table (ordername varchar(50), qty int)
insert into @t values ('ord1',5),('ord2',3)
;with cte as
(
select ordername, qty, qty-1 n
from @t
union all
select ordername, qty, n-1
from cte
where n>0
)
select ordername,1
from cte
order by ordername
Also you can use option with master..spt_values system table.
SELECT t.ordernumber, o.qty, t.articlenumber
FROM dbo.SplitTable t CROSS APPLY (
SELECT 1 AS qty
FROM master..spt_values v
WHERE v.TYPE = 'P' AND v.number < t.qty
) o
However, for this purpose is preferable to use its own sequence table
See demo on SQLFiddle