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Loop through/split a delimited string.
SQL
DECLARE @Str NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @Str = ',Rajesh,Ganpat,Varu,Smith,GANUSHARMA,Vandana,Anil,Rajvir,Feroz,Anup,Manoj,'
DECLARE @Part NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @IND    INT
SET @IND = CHARINDEX(',',@Str)
DECLARE @EIND INT set @EIND = 0
WHILE(@IND != LEN(@STR))
BEGIN
    SET  @EIND = ISNULL(((CHARINDEX(',', @Str, @IND + 1)) - @IND - 1), 0)
    SELECT (SUBSTRING(@Str, (@IND  + 1),  @EIND))
    SELECT @IND = ISNULL(CHARINDEX(',', @STR, @IND + 1), 0)
END

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HI amiraka

it must be problems because it's XML Tag in SQL if you are proper make XML tag than it should be give error. lol..

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