You can use a combination of Oracle's string manipulation functions and a hierarchical query to achieve this. Below is a step-by-step example to help you understand how to split comma-separated values in a column into multiple rows.
Assuming you have a table named `cusip_table` and a column named `cusip`:
CREATE TABLE cusip_table (id NUMBER, cusip VARCHAR2(50));
INSERT INTO cusip_table VALUES (1, '12345,67890,ABCDEF');
INSERT INTO cusip_table VALUES (2, '54321,X9876,Y5432');
INSERT INTO cusip_table VALUES (3, 'Z1234');
You can use the following SQL query to split the `cusip` column into multiple rows:
SELECT id,
TRIM(REGEXP_SUBSTR(cusip, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL)) AS single_cusip
FROM cusip_table
CONNECT BY PRIOR id = id
AND PRIOR DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE IS NOT NULL
AND LEVEL <= REGEXP_COUNT(cusip, '[^,]+') + 1
ORDER BY id, LEVEL;
In this query:
- `REGEXP_SUBSTR(cusip, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL)`: This function is used to split the comma-separated values. It returns the substring from `cusip` that matches the regular expression '[^,]+', which means "one or more characters that are not a comma". The fourth parameter, `LEVEL`, specifies which occurrence of the substring to return.
- `CONNECT BY PRIOR id = id AND PRIOR DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE IS NOT NULL AND LEVEL <= REGEXP_COUNT(cusip, '[^,]+') + 1`: This is a hierarchical query clause that is used to generate the multiple rows. `LEVEL` is an Oracle pseudo column that returns the level number of a node in a tree structure. The `CONNECT BY` clause is saying to generate rows while the `LEVEL` is less than or equal to the number of elements in the comma-separated list.
- `TRIM`: This function is used to remove any leading or trailing spaces from the substrings.
- `ORDER BY id, LEVEL`: This is used to order the result set first by `id`, and then by `LEVEL` to maintain the original order of elements in the comma-separated list.
Please adjust the table name, column name, and any other parts of the query as needed to fit your specific use case.