Breaking up sections of a column into multiple colums in a query

Question

Hi,
I have a column called LEDGERACCOUNT that contains values such as '70410-TMB-MAT-MSP----'. I'd like to write a query that breaks the values between the '-' into separate columns. So far I have managed to get the first part with
left(LEDGERACCOUNT, 5)
How do I new get the others done so that, for the account above, TMB appears in one column, MAT in another and MSP in another.
For all records the values will be in the same position.
Cheers
Paul

Answer 1

How many times your "-" delimiter would be present? 
If its 3 times of maximum , then you can use the below:
Create Table Product(Col1 varchar(10),Col2 Varchar(1000))
iNSERT INTO Product(Col1,Col2) sELECT 1,'70410-TMB-MAT-MSP'
;With cte as (Select Col1, REPLACE(Col2,'-','.') Col2 From Product)
Select Col1, PARSENAME(Col2,4) ,PARSENAME(Col2,3),PARSENAME(Col2,2),PARSENAME(Col2,1)
From cte
Drop table Product
If the delimiter is more than 3 times, you can use the below:
Create Table Product(Col1 varchar(10),Col2 Varchar(1000))
iNSERT INTO Product(Col1,Col2) sELECT 1,'70410-TMB-MAT-MSP'
iNSERT INTO Product(Col1,Col2) sELECT 2,'70410-TMB-MAT-MSP-asdsad'
;WITH
L0 AS(SELECT 1 AS c UNION ALL SELECT 1),
L1 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L0 AS A, L0 AS B),
L2 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L1 AS A, L1 AS B),
L3 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L2 AS A, L2 AS B),
Numbers AS(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY c) AS n FROM L3)
SELECT Col1, [1] AS Column1, [2] AS Column2, [3] AS Column3, [4] AS Column4, [5] AS Column5
FROM
(SELECT Col1,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY Col1 ORDER BY nums.n) AS PositionInList,
LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(valueTable.Col2, nums.n,
charindex(N'-', valueTable.Col2 + N'-', nums.n) - nums.n))) AS [Value]
FROM Numbers AS nums INNER JOIN Product AS valueTable ON nums.n <= CONVERT(int, LEN(valueTable.Col2))
AND SUBSTRING(N'-' + valueTable.Col2, n, 1) = N'-') AS SourceTable
PIVOT
MAX([VALUE]) FOR PositionInList IN ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5])
) AS Table2
Drop table Product
Ref: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/T-SQL-Script-Splitting-a-33ae721c