Using IN in a where clause from ASP .net

  • Hi, I have a SP that shoyuld receive a string and return a record set as follows

    Create SP mySP

    @codeList char(50) = Null as

    Select * from myTable WHERE m_NAME IN (@codeList)

    From asp .net when setting the value for the parameter = "APP", I get a record with one line. But when giving it 2 codes like this = "APP, DDC", I get 0 record back

    I tried "'APP', 'DDD'", without success.

    Thanks for your help

     

  • Try this

    Select * from myTable WHERE CHARINDEX(',' + m_NAME + ',' , ',' + @codeList + ',') > 0

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    Anon.

  • Sorry but it doesn't work the way you assume,  in your example,  @codeList can only be a single value not a list.  There are a few options:

    if you know that the won't be moe than say 3 values then try:

    Select * from myTable WHERE m_NAME IN (@codeList1,@codeList3,@codeList3)

    Or build dynamic SQL either in the client ot in SQL

    Set @sql = 'Select * from myTable WHERE m_NAME IN ('

       + @codeList + ')'

    Exec (@SQL)

    or, if you ensure your parameter has a leading and trailing comma (,) or other delimited e.g. ,APP,DDC,

    Select * from myTable WHERE @codeList like '%,' + m_NAME + ',%' 

    or using double-quotes as the delimiter

    e.g. "APP","DDC"

    Select * from myTable WHERE @codeList like '%"' + m_NAME + '"%' 

    Watch for the double & single quites above.

    it reads Single % Double single + m_NAME + single double % single

    Hope this gives you a few ideas...

     

  • Here's some code I use. It requires creating two UDFs, dbo.fGetToken and dbo.fGetTable.  UDF dbo.fGetTable references dbo.fGetToken.

    All of this boils down to being able to execute a query like this:

    SELECT m.*

      FROM myTable m 

       JOIN dbo.fGetTable(@codelist, ',') c ON m.m_name = c.code

    --------------------------------------------------------------

    DROP FUNCTION dbo.fGetTable

    DROP FUNCTION dbo.fGetToken

    GO

    CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fGetToken

    (

      @parm varchar(8000),

      @delim varchar(100),

      @whichOccur smallint

    )

    RETURNS varchar(8000)

    AS

    BEGIN

    DECLARE @occur int, @spos int

    DECLARE @token varchar(8000)

    SET @occur = 0

    WHILE @occur < @whichOccur AND @parm <> '' AND @parm IS NOT NULL

    BEGIN

      SET @spos = CHARINDEX( @delim , @parm, 1 )

      IF @spos = 0

        BEGIN

          SET @token = @parm

          SET @parm = ''

        END

      ELSE

        BEGIN

          SET @token = SubString( @parm, 1, @spos - 1)

          SET @parm = Substring( @parm, @spos + Len(@delim), Len(@parm) - @spos )

        END

      SET @occur = @occur + 1

    END

    IF @occur <> @whichOccur

      SET @token = '' -- or NULL

    RETURN @token

    END

    GO

    CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fGetTable

    (

      @codelist varchar(100),

      @delim varchar(10)

    )

    RETURNS @tbl TABLE (code varchar(10))

    AS

    BEGIN

      DECLARE @code varchar(10), @occur int

     

      SET @occur = 1

      SET @code = dbo.fGetToken(@codeList, @delim , @occur)

      WHILE @code <> ''

      BEGIN

        INSERT @tbl (code) VALUES (@code)

        SET @occur = @occur + 1

        SET @code = dbo.fGetToken(@codeList, @delim , @occur)

      END

      RETURN

    END

    GO

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    -- EXAMPLE:

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    DROP TABLE myTable

    GO

    CREATE TABLE myTable

    (

      id int IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,

      m_name varchar(10)

    )

    SET NOCOUNT ON

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('APP')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('DDC')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('ABC')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('JKLMNO')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('STU')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('YZ')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('123')

    INSERT myTable (m_name) VALUES ('456')

    SET NOCOUNT OFF

    GO

    DECLARE @codeList varchar(50)

    --SET @codeList = 'APP'

    --SET @codeList = 'APP, DDC'

    SET @codeList = 'APP, DDC, ABC, DEF, GHI, JKLMNO, PQR, STU, VWX, YZ'

    -- Run the query

    SET @codeList = Replace(@codeList, ' ', '')

    SELECT m.*

      FROM myTable m JOIN dbo.fGetTable(@codelist, ',') c ON m.m_name = c.code

  • Read this:

    http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html

    and this:

    http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • Thanks everybody, I was in vacation so that's why I didn' respond, I liked the fgettoken and fgettable functions, it works fine.

    Also the articles on sommarskog are wonderfull

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