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I have a string in SQL column in below structure
Date1-Date2=Value1\Date3-Date4=Value2\Date5-Date6=Value3

Want to get data in below formal

Start Date | End Date | Value 
Date1      | Date2    | Value1
Date3      | Date4    | Value2
Date5      | Date6    | Value3


Please help

What I have tried:

Solution Added for the problem below
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Updated 9-Dec-19 18:35pm
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Maciej Los 9-Dec-19 8:31am    
What have you tried (including code)?
As far as i see, you need split string based on set of delimiters: {'\', '-', '='}

I'd suggest to start here: STRING_SPLIT (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs[^]

[EDIT]
For older version of MS SQL Server (than 2016) i'd do that this way:
SQL
DECLARE @t2s AS NVARCHAR(1000) = 'Date1-Date2=Value1\Date3-Date4=Value2\Date5-Date6=Value3'

;WITH MyRows AS
(
	--initial query
	SELECT 1 AS RowNo, LEFT(@t2s, CHARINDEX('\',@t2s)-1) AS RowValue, RIGHT(@t2s, LEN(@t2s) - CHARINDEX('\',@t2s)) AS Remainder
	WHERE CHARINDEX('\',@t2s)>0
	UNION ALL
	--recursive part
	SELECT RowNo +1 AS RowNo, LEFT(Remainder, CHARINDEX('\',Remainder)-1) AS RowValue, RIGHT(@t2s, LEN(Remainder) - CHARINDEX('\',Remainder)) AS Remainder
	FROM MyRows 
	WHERE CHARINDEX('\',Remainder) >0
	UNION ALL
	SELECT RowNo+1 AS RowNo, Remainder AS RowValue, NULL AS Remainder
	FROM MyRows 
	WHERE CHARINDEX('\',Remainder) =0
)
SELECT RowNo, 
	LEFT(RowValue, CHARINDEX('-', RowValue)-1) AS Col1,
	SUBSTRING(RowValue, CHARINDEX('-', RowValue)+1, LEN(RowValue) - CHARINDEX('=', RowValue)-1) AS Col2,
	RIGHT(RowValue, LEN(RowValue)-CHARINDEX('=', RowValue)) AS Col3
FROM MyRows
WHERE CHARINDEX('-', RowValue)>0 AND CHARINDEX('=', RowValue)>0

Result:
RowNo	Col1	Col2	Col3
1	Date1	Date2	Value1
2	Date3	Date4	Value2
3	Date5	Date6	Value3
 
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Komal Dattani 9-Dec-19 8:39am    
Not on SQL 2016
Maciej Los 9-Dec-19 8:45am    
So, you should provide more information about SQL Server version. What is yours?
CHill60 9-Dec-19 9:30am    
STRING_SPLIT was added in SQL Server 2016
Komal Dattani 10-Dec-19 0:44am    
Thanks @Maciej Los this works as well
Maciej Los 10-Dec-19 2:01am    
You're very welcome.
DECLARE @FullString AS NVARCHAR(1000) = 'Date1-Date2=Value1\Date3-Date4=Value2\Date5-Date6=Value3'
	   ;with Data as 
	   (SELECT Split.a.value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS Row  
	   FROM  (SELECT   
       CAST ('<M>' + REPLACE(@FullString, '\', '</M><M>') + '</M>' AS XML) AS String) AS A CROSS APPLY String.nodes ('/M') AS Split(a))
	  select Row, 
	  SUBSTRING(Row,CHARINDEX('-',Row)+1,CHARINDEX('=',Row)-CHARINDEX('-',Row)-1) as EndDate,
	  SUBSTRING(Row,0,CHARINDEX('-',Row)) as StartDate ,
	  SUBSTRING(Row ,CHARINDEX('=', Row)+1, LEN(Row) - CHARINDEX('=', Row)) Value
	  from Data
 
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