Używanie CTE do dzielenia wyników na CROSS APPLY

Być może szukasz czegoś takiego (jest to uproszczona wersja, ja użyłem tylko imienia i komentarza jako "identyfikatora"). Przetestowałem to na tych danych i - na razie - obrazowanie max len 50 do podziału kolumny tekstu. Wskazówka:zmień typ danych comment_text na VARCHAR(500)

DECLARE @Comments TABLE
(
    id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    comment_date DATETIME NOT NULL,
    first_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    last_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    comment_title VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    comment_text VARCHAR(500)
);

    INSERT INTO @Comments VALUES(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 'Bob', 'Example','Bob''s Comment', 'Text of Bob''s comment.');
    INSERT INTO @Comments VALUES(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 'Alice', 'Example','Alice''s Comment'
    , 'Text of Alice''s comment that is much longer and will need to be split over multiple rows aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc ddddddddddd eeeeeeeeeeee fffffffffffff ggggggggggggg.');

WITH CTE AS (SELECT comment_date, first_name, '<Note>'+CAST( SUBSTRING(comment_text, 1, 50) AS VARCHAR(500)) +'</Note>'comment_text, 1 AS RN
             FROM @Comments 
             UNION ALL 
             SELECT A.comment_date, A.first_name, '<Text>'+CAST( SUBSTRING(A.comment_text, B.RN*50+1, 50) AS VARCHAR(500)) +'</Text>'AS comment_text, B.RN+1 AS RN
             FROM @Comments A 
             INNER JOIN CTE B ON A.comment_date=B.comment_date AND A.first_name=B.first_name 
            WHERE  LEN(A.comment_text) > B.RN*50+1                    
             )
SELECT A.comment_date, A.first_name, '<title>'+ comment_title+'</title>' AS markup  
FROM @Comments A
UNION ALL
SELECT B.comment_date, B.first_name, B.comment_text AS markup  
FROM  CTE B ;

Wyjście:

    comment_date        first_name  markup
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Bob         <title>Bob's Comment</title>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Alice       <title>Alice's Comment</title>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Bob          <Note>Text of Bob's comment.</Note>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Alice        <Note>Text of Alice's comment that is much longer and wi</Note>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Alice        <Text>ll need to be split over multiple rows aaaaaa bbbb</Text>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Alice        <Text>bb cccccc ddddddddddd eeeeeeeeeeee fffffffffffff g</Text>
2017-07-07 14:30:51.117 Alice        <Text>gggggggggggg.</Text>