Query stuff result left join on multiple ids [duplicate] - sql

Question

Duplicate of
Dynamic SQL Comma Delimited Value Query
Parameterized Queries with Like and In
I have a SQL Server Stored Procedure where I would like to pass a varchar full of comma delimited values to an IN function. For example:
DECLARE #Ids varchar(50);
SET #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';
SELECT *
FROM sometable
WHERE tableid IN (#Ids);
This does not work of course. I get the error:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234' to data type int.
How can I accomplish this (or something relatively similar) without resorting to building dynamic SQL?

Answer 1

Of course if you're lazy like me, you could just do this:
Declare #Ids varchar(50) Set #Ids = ',1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234,'
Select * from sometable
where Charindex(','+cast(tableid as varchar(8000))+',', #Ids) > 0

Answer 2

Don't use a function that loops to split a string!, my function below will split a string very fast, with no looping!
Before you use my function, you need to set up a "helper" table, you only need to do this one time per database:
CREATE TABLE Numbers
(Number int NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Numbers PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (Number ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
DECLARE #x int
SET #x=0
WHILE #x<8000
BEGIN
SET #x=#x+1
INSERT INTO Numbers VALUES (#x)
END
use this function to split your string, which does not loop and is very fast:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FN_ListToTable]
(
#SplitOn char(1) --REQUIRED, the character to split the #List string on
,#List varchar(8000) --REQUIRED, the list to split apart
)
RETURNS
#ParsedList table
(
ListValue varchar(500)
)
AS
BEGIN
/**
Takes the given #List string and splits it apart based on the given #SplitOn character.
A table is returned, one row per split item, with a column name "ListValue".
This function workes for fixed or variable lenght items.
Empty and null items will not be included in the results set.
Returns a table, one row per item in the list, with a column name "ListValue"
EXAMPLE:
----------
SELECT * FROM dbo.FN_ListToTable(',','1,12,123,1234,54321,6,A,*,|||,,,,B')
returns:
ListValue
-----------
1
12
123
1234
54321
6
A
*
|||
B
(10 row(s) affected)
**/
----------------
--SINGLE QUERY-- --this will not return empty rows
----------------
INSERT INTO #ParsedList
(ListValue)
SELECT
ListValue
FROM (SELECT
LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(List2, number+1, CHARINDEX(#SplitOn, List2, number+1)-number - 1))) AS ListValue
FROM (
SELECT #SplitOn + #List + #SplitOn AS List2
) AS dt
INNER JOIN Numbers n ON n.Number < LEN(dt.List2)
WHERE SUBSTRING(List2, number, 1) = #SplitOn
) dt2
WHERE ListValue IS NOT NULL AND ListValue!=''
RETURN
END --Function FN_ListToTable
you can use this function as a table in a join:
SELECT
Col1, COl2, Col3...
FROM YourTable
INNER JOIN FN_ListToTable(',',#YourString) s ON YourTable.ID = s.ListValue
Here is your example:
Select * from sometable where tableid in(SELECT ListValue FROM dbo.FN_ListToTable(',',#Ids) s)

Answer 3

No Table No Function No Loop
Building on the idea of parsing your list into a table our DBA suggested using XML.
Declare #Ids varchar(50)
Set #Ids = ‘1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234’
DECLARE #XML XML
SET #XML = CAST('<i>' + REPLACE(#Ids, ',', '</i><i>') + '</i>' AS XML)
SELECT *
FROM
SomeTable
INNER JOIN #XML.nodes('i') x(i)
ON SomeTable .Id = x.i.value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)')
These seems to have the same performance as #KM's answer but, I think, a lot simpler.

Answer 4

You can create a function that returns a table.
so your statement would be something like
select * from someable
join Splitfunction(#ids) as splits on sometable.id = splits.id
Here is a simular function.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FUNC_SplitOrderIDs]
(
#OrderList varchar(500)
)
RETURNS
#ParsedList table
(
OrderID int
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #OrderID varchar(10), #Pos int
SET #OrderList = LTRIM(RTRIM(#OrderList))+ ','
SET #Pos = CHARINDEX(',', #OrderList, 1)
IF REPLACE(#OrderList, ',', '') <> ''
BEGIN
WHILE #Pos > 0
BEGIN
SET #OrderID = LTRIM(RTRIM(LEFT(#OrderList, #Pos - 1)))
IF #OrderID <> ''
BEGIN
INSERT INTO #ParsedList (OrderID)
VALUES (CAST(#OrderID AS int)) --Use Appropriate conversion
END
SET #OrderList = RIGHT(#OrderList, LEN(#OrderList) - #Pos)
SET #Pos = CHARINDEX(',', #OrderList, 1)
END
END
RETURN
END

Answer 5

It's a very common question. Canned answer, several nice techniques:
http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql-2005.html

Answer 6

This works perfectly! The below answers are too complicated. Don't look at this as dynamic. Set up your store procedure as follows:
(#id as varchar(50))
as
Declare #query as nvarchar(max)
set #query ='
select * from table
where id in('+#id+')'
EXECUTE sp_executesql #query

Answer 7

I can suggest using WITH like this:
DECLARE #Delim char(1) = ',';
SET #Ids = #Ids + #Delim;
WITH CTE(i, ls, id) AS (
SELECT 1, CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, 1), SUBSTRING(#Ids, 1, CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, 1) - 1)
UNION ALL
SELECT i + 1, CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, ls + 1), SUBSTRING(#Ids, ls + 1, CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, ls + 1) - CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, ls) - 1)
FROM CTE
WHERE CHARINDEX(#Delim, #Ids, ls + 1) > 1
)
SELECT t.*
FROM yourTable t
INNER JOIN
CTE c
ON t.id = c.id;

Answer 8

I think a very simple solution could be following:
DECLARE #Ids varchar(50);
SET #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';
SELECT *
FROM sometable
WHERE ','+#Ids+',' LIKE '%,'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),tableid)+',%';

Answer 9

Without using dynamic SQL, you have to take the input variable and use a split function to put the data into a temp table and then join to that.

Answer 10

Thanks, for your function I Used IT........................
This is my EXAMPLE
**UPDATE [RD].[PurchaseOrderHeader]
SET [DispatchCycleNumber] ='10'
WHERE OrderNumber in(select * FROM XA.fn_SplitOrderIDs(#InvoiceNumberList))**
CREATE FUNCTION [XA].[fn_SplitOrderIDs]
(
#OrderList varchar(500)
)
RETURNS
#ParsedList table
(
OrderID int
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #OrderID varchar(10), #Pos int
SET #OrderList = LTRIM(RTRIM(#OrderList))+ ','
SET #Pos = CHARINDEX(',', #OrderList, 1)
IF REPLACE(#OrderList, ',', '') <> ''
BEGIN
WHILE #Pos > 0
BEGIN
SET #OrderID = LTRIM(RTRIM(LEFT(#OrderList, #Pos - 1)))
IF #OrderID <> ''
BEGIN
INSERT INTO #ParsedList (OrderID)
VALUES (CAST(#OrderID AS int)) --Use Appropriate conversion
END
SET #OrderList = RIGHT(#OrderList, LEN(#OrderList) - #Pos)
SET #Pos = CHARINDEX(',', #OrderList, 1)
END
END
RETURN
END

Answer 11

If you use SQL Server 2008 or higher, use table valued parameters; for example:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetAccounts](#accountIds nvarchar)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT *
FROM accountsTable
WHERE accountId IN (select * from #accountIds)
END
CREATE TYPE intListTableType AS TABLE (n int NOT NULL)
DECLARE #tvp intListTableType
-- inserts each id to one row in the tvp table
INSERT #tvp(n) VALUES (16509),(16685),(46173),(42925),(46167),(5511)
EXEC GetAccounts #tvp

Answer 12

Its been a while but I have done this in the past using XML as a interim.
I can't take any credit for this, but I'm afraid I no longer know where I got this idea from:
-- declare the variables needed
DECLARE #xml as xml,#str as varchar(100),#delimiter as varchar(10)
-- The string you want to split
SET #str='A,B,C,D,E,Bert,Ernie,1,2,3,4,5'
-- What you want to split on. Can be a single character or a string
SET #delimiter =','
-- Convert it to an XML document
SET #xml = cast(('<X>'+replace(#str,#delimiter ,'</X><X>')+'</X>') as xml)
-- Select back from the XML
SELECT N.value('.', 'varchar(10)') as value FROM #xml.nodes('X') as T(N)

Answer 13

Create a table function like below which parse comma separated varchar and returns a table that can be inner joined with other tables.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_SplitList]
(
#inString varchar(MAX) = '',
#inDelimiter char(1) = ',' -- Keep the delimiter to 100 chars or less. Generally a delimiter will be 1-2 chars only.
)
RETURNS #tbl_Return table
(
Unit varchar(1000) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN
)
AS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO #tbl_Return
SELECT DISTINCT
LTRIM(RTRIM(piece.value('./text()[1]', 'varchar(1000)'))) COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AS Unit
FROM
(
--
-- Replace any delimiters in the string with the "X" tag.
--
SELECT
CAST(('<X>' + REPLACE(s0.prsString, s0.prsSplitDelimit, '</X><X>') + '</X>') AS xml).query('.') AS units
FROM
(
--
-- Convert the string and delimiter into XML.
--
SELECT
(SELECT #inString FOR XML PATH('')) AS prsString,
(SELECT #inDelimiter FOR XML PATH('')) AS prsSplitDelimit
) AS s0
) AS s1
CROSS APPLY units.nodes('X') x(piece)
RETURN
END
=================================================
Now consume above created table function in your code,creation of function is one time activity in your database that can be used across databases as well on same server.
DECLARE #Ids varchar(50);
SET #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';
SELECT
*
FROM sometable AS st
INNER JOIN fn_SplitList(#ids, ',') AS sl
ON sl.unit = st.tableid

Answer 14

I've written a stored procedure to show how to do this before.
You basically have to process the string.
I tried to post the code here but the formatting got all screwy.
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.sysobjects WHERE id = object_id(N'[dbo].[uspSplitTextList]') AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1)
DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[uspSplitTextList]
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
/* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */
-- uspSplitTextList
--
-- Description:
-- splits a separated list of text items and returns the text items
--
-- Arguments:
-- #list_text - list of text items
-- #Delimiter - delimiter
--
-- Notes:
-- 02/22/2006 - WSR : use DATALENGTH instead of LEN throughout because LEN doesn't count trailing blanks
--
-- History:
-- 02/22/2006 - WSR : revised algorithm to account for items crossing 8000 character boundary
-- 09/18/2006 - WSR : added to this project
--
CREATE PROCEDURE uspSplitTextList
#list_text text,
#Delimiter varchar(3)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE #InputLen integer -- input text length
DECLARE #TextPos integer -- current position within input text
DECLARE #Chunk varchar(8000) -- chunk within input text
DECLARE #ChunkPos integer -- current position within chunk
DECLARE #DelimPos integer -- position of delimiter
DECLARE #ChunkLen integer -- chunk length
DECLARE #DelimLen integer -- delimiter length
DECLARE #ItemBegPos integer -- item starting position in text
DECLARE #ItemOrder integer -- item order in list
DECLARE #DelimChar varchar(1) -- first character of delimiter (simple delimiter)
-- create table to hold list items
-- actually their positions because we may want to scrub this list eliminating bad entries before substring is applied
CREATE TABLE #list_items ( item_order integer, item_begpos integer, item_endpos integer )
-- process list
IF #list_text IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
-- initialize
SET #InputLen = DATALENGTH(#list_text)
SET #TextPos = 1
SET #DelimChar = SUBSTRING(#Delimiter, 1, 1)
SET #DelimLen = DATALENGTH(#Delimiter)
SET #ItemBegPos = 1
SET #ItemOrder = 1
SET #ChunkLen = 1
-- cycle through input processing chunks
WHILE #TextPos <= #InputLen AND #ChunkLen <> 0
BEGIN
-- get current chunk
SET #Chunk = SUBSTRING(#list_text, #TextPos, 8000)
-- setup initial variable values
SET #ChunkPos = 1
SET #ChunkLen = DATALENGTH(#Chunk)
SET #DelimPos = CHARINDEX(#DelimChar, #Chunk, #ChunkPos)
-- loop over the chunk, until the last delimiter
WHILE #ChunkPos <= #ChunkLen AND #DelimPos <> 0
BEGIN
-- see if this is a full delimiter
IF SUBSTRING(#list_text, (#TextPos + #DelimPos - 1), #DelimLen) = #Delimiter
BEGIN
-- insert position
INSERT INTO #list_items (item_order, item_begpos, item_endpos)
VALUES (#ItemOrder, #ItemBegPos, (#TextPos + #DelimPos - 1) - 1)
-- adjust positions
SET #ItemOrder = #ItemOrder + 1
SET #ItemBegPos = (#TextPos + #DelimPos - 1) + #DelimLen
SET #ChunkPos = #DelimPos + #DelimLen
END
ELSE
BEGIN
-- adjust positions
SET #ChunkPos = #DelimPos + 1
END
-- find next delimiter
SET #DelimPos = CHARINDEX(#DelimChar, #Chunk, #ChunkPos)
END
-- adjust positions
SET #TextPos = #TextPos + #ChunkLen
END
-- handle last item
IF #ItemBegPos <= #InputLen
BEGIN
-- insert position
INSERT INTO #list_items (item_order, item_begpos, item_endpos)
VALUES (#ItemOrder, #ItemBegPos, #InputLen)
END
-- delete the bad items
DELETE FROM #list_items
WHERE item_endpos < item_begpos
-- return list items
SELECT SUBSTRING(#list_text, item_begpos, (item_endpos - item_begpos + 1)) AS item_text, item_order, item_begpos, item_endpos
FROM #list_items
ORDER BY item_order
END
DROP TABLE #list_items
RETURN
/* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

Answer 15

I have same idea with user KM. but do not need extra table Number. Just this function only.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FN_ListToTable]
(
#SplitOn char(1) --REQUIRED, the character to split the #List string on
,#List varchar(8000) --REQUIRED, the list to split apart
)
RETURNS
#ParsedList table
(
ListValue varchar(500)
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #number int = 0
DECLARE #childString varchar(502) = ''
DECLARE #lengthChildString int = 0
DECLARE #processString varchar(502) = #SplitOn + #List + #SplitOn
WHILE #number < LEN(#processString)
BEGIN
SET #number = #number + 1
SET #lengthChildString = CHARINDEX(#SplitOn, #processString, #number + 1) - #number - 1
IF #lengthChildString > 0
BEGIN
SET #childString = LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(#processString, #number + 1, #lengthChildString)))
IF #childString IS NOT NULL AND #childString != ''
BEGIN
INSERT INTO #ParsedList(ListValue) VALUES (#childString)
SET #number = #number + #lengthChildString - 1
END
END
END
RETURN
END
And here is the test:
SELECT ListValue FROM dbo.FN_ListToTable('/','a/////bb/c')
Result:
ListValue
______________________
a
bb
c

Answer 16

-- select * from dbo.Split_ID('77,106')
ALTER FUNCTION dbo.Split_ID(#String varchar(8000))
returns #temptable TABLE (ID varchar(8000))
as
begin
declare #idx int
declare #slice varchar(8000)
declare #Delimiter char(1)
set #Delimiter =','
select #idx = 1
if len(#String)<1 or #String is null return
while #idx!= 0
begin
set #idx = charindex(#Delimiter,#String)
if #idx!=0
set #slice = left(#String,#idx - 1)
else
set #slice = #String
if(len(#slice)>0)
insert into #temptable(ID) values(#slice)
set #String = right(#String,len(#String) - #idx)
if len(#String) = 0 break
end
return
end

Answer 17

You could do it like this:
create or replace
PROCEDURE UDP_SETBOOKMARK
(
P_USERID IN VARCHAR2
, P_BOOKMARK IN VARCHAR2
) AS
BEGIN
UPDATE T_ER_Bewertung
SET LESEZEICHEN = P_BOOKMARK
WHERE STAMM_ID in( select regexp_substr(P_USERID,'[^,]+', 1, level) from dual
connect by regexp_substr(P_USERID, '[^,]+', 1, level) is not null )
and ER_ID = (select max(ER_ID) from T_ER_Bewertung_Kopie);
commit;
END UDP_SETBOOKMARK;
Then try it with
Begin
UDP_SETBOOKMARK ('1,2,3,4,5', 'Test');
End;
You can use this IN-Clause with regexp_substr in other situations too, just try it.

Answer 18

Error 493: The column 'i' that was returned from the nodes() method cannot be
used directly. It can only be used with one of the four XML data type
methods, exist(), nodes(), query(), and value(), or in IS NULL and IS NOT
NULL checks.
The above errorr was fixed in SQL Server 2014 by using following snippet
Declare #Ids varchar(50)
Set #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234'
DECLARE #XML XML
SET #XML = CAST('<i>' + REPLACE(#Ids, ',', '</i><i>') + '</i>' AS XML)
SELECT SomeTable.*
FROM
SomeTable
cross apply #XML.nodes('i') x(i)
where SomeTable .Id = x.i.value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)')

Answer 19

Try this:
SELECT ProductId, Name, Tags
FROM Product
WHERE '1,2,3,' LIKE '%' + CAST(ProductId AS VARCHAR(20)) + ',%';
As said on the last example of this link

Answer 20

Tons of answers here, but to add my two cents I think STRING_SPLIT is a very simple approach to this sort of problem:
DECLARE #Ids varchar(50);
SET #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';
SELECT *
FROM sometable
WHERE tableid IN;
(SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(#Ids, ','))

Answer 21

Best and simple approach.
DECLARE #AccumulateKeywordCopy NVARCHAR(2000),#IDDupCopy NVARCHAR(50);
SET #AccumulateKeywordCopy ='';
SET #IDDupCopy ='';
SET #IDDup = (SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX), <columnName>) FROM <tableName> WHERE <clause>)
SET #AccumulateKeywordCopy = ','+#AccumulateKeyword+',';
SET #IDDupCopy = ','+#IDDup +',';
SET #IDDupCheck = CHARINDEX(#IDDupCopy,#AccumulateKeywordCopy)

Answer 22

CREATE TABLE t
(
id INT,
col1 VARCHAR(50)
)
INSERT INTO t
VALUES (1,
'param1')
INSERT INTO t
VALUES (2,
'param2')
INSERT INTO t
VALUES (3,
'param3')
INSERT INTO t
VALUES (4,
'param4')
INSERT INTO t
VALUES (5,
'param5')
DECLARE #params VARCHAR(100)
SET #params = ',param1,param2,param3,'
SELECT *
FROM t
WHERE Charindex(',' + Cast(col1 AS VARCHAR(8000)) + ',', #params) > 0
working fiddle find here Fiddle

Answer 23

I ran into the same issue, and I don't want to have any footprint on the source database - i.e. no stored procedures or functions. I went about it this way:
declare #IDs table (Value int)
insert into #IDs values(1)
insert into #IDs values(2)
insert into #IDs values(3)
insert into #IDs values(5)
insert into #IDs values(4)
insert into #IDs values(6)
insert into #IDs values(7)
insert into #IDs values(98)
insert into #IDs values(234)
SELECT *
FROM sometable
WHERE tableid IN (select Value from #IDs)

Answer 24

The answer by #RBarryYoung (above) worked for me.
But when you have spaces in between the comma separated string values, then it will omit IDs with spaces. So I removed the spaces.
Take a look at the code snippet below.
Declare #Ids varchar(50) Set #Ids = '1 , 2,3'
set #Ids=','+Replace(#Ids,' ', '')+',';
Select * from [tblEmployee]
where Charindex(','+cast(ID as varchar(8000))+',', #Ids) > 0

Answer 25

WHERE someId IN (SELECT convert(int, value) FROM string_split(#stringOfCommaDelimitedIds, ','))

Answer 26

The simplest way i found was to use FIND_IN_SET
FIND_IN_SET(column_name, values)
values=(1,2,3)
SELECT name WHERE FIND_IN_SET(id, values)

Answer 27

This came in handy for one of my requirements where I did not want to use CTE and also did not want to go with the inner join.
DECLARE #Ids varchar(50);
SET #Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';
SELECT
cn1,cn2,cn3
FROM tableName
WHERE columnName in (select Value from fn_SplitString(#ids, ','))
Function for split string :
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_SplitString] ( #stringToSplit VARCHAR(MAX), #seperator Char )
RETURNS
#returnList TABLE ([Value] [nvarchar] (500))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #name NVARCHAR(255)
DECLARE #pos INT
WHILE CHARINDEX(#seperator, #stringToSplit) > 0
BEGIN
SELECT #pos = CHARINDEX(#seperator, #stringToSplit)
SELECT #name = SUBSTRING(#stringToSplit, 1, #pos-1)
INSERT INTO #returnList
SELECT #name
SELECT #stringToSplit = SUBSTRING(#stringToSplit, #pos+1, LEN(#stringToSplit)-#pos)
END
INSERT INTO #returnList
SELECT #stringToSplit
RETURN
END