Query to find entries and transpose - sql-server-2008

Question

I've got a machine log available in an SQL table. I can do a bit in SQL, but I'm not good enough to process the following:
In the data column there are entries containing "RUNPGM: Recipe name" and "RUNBRKPGM: Recipe name"
What I want is a view containing 4 columns:
TimeStamp RUNPGM
TimeStamp RUNBRKPGM
Recipe Name
Time Difference in seconds
There is a bit of a catch:
Sometimes the machine logs an empty RUNBRKPGM that should be ignored
The RUNBRKPGM is sometimes logged with an error message. This entry should also be ignored.
It's always the RUNBRKPGM entry with just the recipe name that's the actual end of the recipe.

Answer 1

NOTE: I understand this is not a full/complete answer, but with info available in question as of now, I believe it at least helps give a starting point since this is too complicated (and formatted) to put in the comments:
If Recipe is everything in the DATA field except the 'RUNPGM = ' part you can do somethign similar to this:
SELECT
-- will give you a col for TimeStamp for records with RUNPGM
CASE WHEN DATA LIKE 'RUNPGM%' THEN TS ELSE '' END AS RUNPGM_TimeStamp,
-- will give you a col for TimeStamp for records with RUNBRKPGM
CASE WHEN DATA LIKE 'RUNBRKPGM%' THEN TS ELSE '' END AS RUNBRKPGM_TimeStamp,
-- will give you everything after the RUNPGM = (which I think is the recipe you are referring to)
CASE WHEN DATA LIKE 'RUNPGM%' THEN REPLACE(DATA, 'RUNPGM = ', '' AS RUNPGM_Recipe,
-- will give you everything after the RUNBRKPGM = (which I think is the recipe you are referring to)
CASE WHEN DATA LIKE 'RUNBRKPGM:%' THEN REPLACE(DATA, 'RUNBRKPGM = ', '' AS RUNPGM_Recipe
FROM TableName
Im not sure what columns you want to get the Time Difference on though so I dont have that column in here.
Then if you need to do additional logic/formatting on the columns once they are separated you can put the above in a sub select.

Answer 2

As a first swing, I'd try the following:
Create a view that uses string splitting to break the DATA column into a its parts (e.g. RunType and RecipeName)
Create a simple select that outputs the recipe name and tstamp where the runtype is RUNPGM.
Then add an OUTER APPLY:
Essentially, joining onto itself.
SELECT
t1.RecipeName,
t1.TimeStamp AS Start,
t2.TimeStamp AS Stop
--date func to get run time, pseudo DATEDIFF(xx,t1.TimeStamp, t2.TimeStamp) as RunTime
FROM newView t1
OUTER APPLY ( SELECT TOP ( 1 ) *
FROM newView x
WHERE x.RecipeName = t1.RecipeName
AND RunType = 'RUNBRKPGM'
ORDER BY ID DESC ) t2
WHERE t1.RunType = 'RUNPGM';