MSSQL怎样将该类字段分割出来

MSSQL怎样将此类字段分割出来?
有一个表A:
A01[厚度]      A02[宽度]       A03[长度]      A04[规格]
  null              null                 null                  8*150*990
....

将A04里的三个数字分割出来分别放到A01,A02,A03字段里,结果如下:
A01[厚度]      A02[宽度]       A03[长度]      A04[规格]
8                    150                  990                  8*150*990
....
哪种方法最高效最好?

------解决方案--------------------
select
   parsename(replace(A04,'*,'.'),3) as 'A01',
   parsename(replace(A04,'*,'.'),2) as 'A02',
   parsename(replace(A04,'*,'.'),1) as 'A03',
 A04
from
   tb

------解决方案--------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
-- Author  :fredrickhu(小F,向高手学习)
-- Date    :2014-03-31 16:25:53
-- Verstion:
--      Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (RTM) - 10.0.1600.22 (Intel X86) 
-- Jul  9 2008 14:43:34 
-- Copyright (c) 1988-2008 Microsoft Corporation
-- Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 6.1 <X86> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)
--
----------------------------------------------------------------
--> 测试数据:[tb]
if object_id('[tb]') is not null drop table [tb]
go 
create table [tb]([A01] sql_variant,[A02] sql_variant,[A03] sql_variant,[A04] varchar(9))
insert [tb]
select null,null,null,'8*150*990'
--------------开始查询--------------------------
select
   parsename(replace(A04,'*','.'),3) as 'A01',
   parsename(replace(A04,'*','.'),2) as 'A02',
   parsename(replace(A04,'*','.'),1) as 'A03',
 A04
from
   tb

----------------结果----------------------------
/* A01                                                                                                                              A02                                                                                                                              A03                                                                                                                              A04
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------
8                                                                                                                                150                                                                                                                              990                                                                                                                              8*150*990