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I'm pretty sure I stole this idea from Adam Bertrand, but I can't seem to find the post. The idea is to use a Unicode character that has a very unlikely chance of occurring in your data to use as a split point / delimiter.
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Istole [this one from Aaron Bertrand](https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4940/dealing-with-the-singlecharacter-delimiter-in-sql-servers-stringsplit-function/){:target="_blank"}. The idea is to use a Unicode character that has a very unlikely chance of occurring in your data to use as a split point / delimiter.
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The article I stole it from uses `nchar(9999)`, which is just this `✏`, a pencil, so that's also what I happen to use now. You could pick from thousands of other characters as long as it's not going to show up in your (hopefully clean) data.
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