T-SQL: Return nth delimited element from a string

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_String_SplitByDelimiter]
(
   @List       VARCHAR(MAX),
   @Delimiter  VARCHAR(255),
   @ElementNumber int
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(4000)
AS
BEGIN

   DECLARE @result varchar(4000)    
   DECLARE @Items TABLE ( position int IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
                          Item VARCHAR(4000)
                         )  

   DECLARE @ll INT , @ld INT;  
   set @ll =  LEN(@List) + 1
   set @ld = LEN(@Delimiter);

   WITH a AS
   (
       SELECT
           [start] = 1,
           [end]   = COALESCE(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, 
                       @List, @ld), 0), @ll),
           [value] = SUBSTRING(@List, 1, 
                     COALESCE(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, 
                       @List, @ld), 0), @ll) - 1)
       UNION ALL
       SELECT
           [start] = CONVERT(INT, [end]) + @ld,
           [end]   = COALESCE(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, 
                       @List, [end] + @ld), 0), @ll),
           [value] = SUBSTRING(@List, [end] + @ld, 
                     COALESCE(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, 
                       @List, [end] + @ld), 0), @ll)-[end]-@ld)
       FROM a
       WHERE [end] < @ll
   )
   INSERT @Items SELECT [value]
   FROM a
   WHERE LEN([value]) > 0
   OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0);

   SELECT @result=Item
   FROM @Items
   WHERE position=@ElementNumber

   RETURN @result;
END

Example

SELECT [dbo].fn_String_SplitByDelimiter (
   '1ST\2ND\3RD\4TH'
  ,'\'
  ,3)

Will output
3RD

taken from the below url, just updated it to work on SQL2005
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19449492/using-t-sql-return-nth-delimited-element-from-a-string

T-SQL: Which table taking most space

This query will list all tables of the selected database, sorted by the table which is taking up most data space in MB from the database.  I used it on a database which had a huge MDF file and found out that the Audit table had grown too much.

SELECT 
 t.NAME AS TableName,
 i.name AS indexName,
 SUM(p.rows) AS RowCounts,
 SUM(a.total_pages) AS TotalPages, 
 SUM(a.used_pages) AS UsedPages, 
 SUM(a.data_pages) AS DataPages,
 (SUM(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS TotalSpaceMB, 
 (SUM(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS UsedSpaceMB, 
 (SUM(a.data_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS DataSpaceMB
FROM 
 sys.tables t
INNER JOIN  
 sys.indexes i ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id
INNER JOIN 
 sys.partitions p ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id
INNER JOIN 
 sys.allocation_units a ON p.partition_id = a.container_id
WHERE 
 t.NAME NOT LIKE 'dt%' AND
 i.OBJECT_ID > 255 AND  
 i.index_id <= 1
GROUP BY 
 t.NAME, i.object_id, i.index_id, i.name 
ORDER BY 
TotalSpaceMB desc
 --OBJECT_NAME(i.object_id) 

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3927231/how-can-you-tell-what-tables-are-taking-up-the-most-space-in-a-sql-server-2005-d