Combination of 'LIKE' and 'IN' using t-sql - sql

Question

How can I do this kind of selection:
SELECT *
FROM Street
WHERE StreetName LIKE IN ('% Main Street', 'foo %')
Please don't tell me that I can use OR because these actually comes from a query.

Answer 1

There is no combined LIKE and IN syntax but you can use LIKE to JOIN onto your query as below.
;WITH Query(Result) As
(
SELECT '% Main Street' UNION ALL
SELECT 'foo %'
)
SELECT DISTINCT s.*
FROM Street s
JOIN Query q ON StreetName LIKE q.Result
Or to use your example in the comments
SELECT DISTINCT s.*
FROM Street s
JOIN CarStreets cs ON s.StreetName LIKE cs.name + '%'
WHERE cs.Streets = 'offroad'

Answer 2

You don't have a lot of choices here.
SELECT * FROM Street Where StreetName LIKE '% Main Street' OR StreetName LIKE 'foo %'
If this is part of an existing, more complicated query (which is the impression I'm getting), you could create a table value function that does the checking for you.
SELECT * FROM Street Where StreetName IN (dbo.FindStreetNameFunction('% Main Street|foo %'))
I'd recommend using the simplest solution (the first). If this is nested inside a larger, more complicated query, post it and we'll take a look.

Answer 3

I had a similar conundrum but due to only needing to match the start of a string, I changed my 'like' to SUBSTRING as such:
SELECT *
FROM codes
WHERE SUBSTRING(code, 1, 12) IN ('012316963429', '012315667849')

Answer 4

You can resort to Dynamic SQL and wrapping up all in a stored procedure.
If you get the LIKE IN param in a string as tokens with a certain separator, like
'% Main Street,foo %,Another%Street'
first you need to create a function that receives a list of LIKE "tokens" and returns a table of them.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[SplitList]
(
#list nvarchar(MAX),
#delim nvarchar(5)
)
RETURNS #splitTable table
(
value nvarchar(50)
)
AS BEGIN
While (Charindex(#delim, #list)>0) Begin
Insert Into #splitTable (value)
Select ltrim(rtrim(Substring(#list, 1, Charindex(#delim, #list)-1)))
Set #list = Substring(#list, Charindex(#delim, #list)+len(#delim), len(#list))
End
Insert Into #splitTable (value) Select ltrim(rtrim(#list))
Return
END
Then in the SP you have the following code
declare
#sql nvarchar(MAX),
#subWhere nvarchar(MAX)
#params nvarchar(MAX)
-- prepare the where sub-clause to cover LIKE IN (...)
-- it will actually generate where sub clause StreetName Like option1 or StreetName Like option2 or ...
set #subWhere = STUFF(
(
--(**)
SELECT ' OR StreetName like ''' + value + '''' FROM SplitList('% Main Street,foo %,Another%Street', ',')
FOR XML PATH('')
), 1, 4, '')
-- create the dynamic SQL
set #sql ='select * from [Street]
where
(' + #subWhere + ')
-- and any additional query params here, if needed, like
AND StreetMinHouseNumber = #minHouseNumber
AND StreetNumberOfHouses between (#minNumberOfHouses and #maxNumberOfHouses)'
set #params = ' #minHouseNumber nvarchar(5),
#minNumberOfHouses int,
#minNumberOfHouses int'
EXECUTE sp_executesql #sql, #params,
#minHouseNumber,
#minNumberOfHouses,
#minNumberOfHouses
Of course, if you have your LIKE IN parameters in another table or you gather it through a query, you can replace that in line (**)

Answer 5

I believe I can clarify what he is looking for, but I don't know the answer. I'll use my situation to demonstrate. I have a table with a column called "Query" that holds SQL queries. These queries sometimes contain table names from one of my databases. I need to find all Query rows that contain table names from a particular database. So, I can use the following code to get the table names:
SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
I'm trying to use a WHERE IN clause to identify the Query rows that contain the table names I'm interested in:
SELECT *
FROM [DatasourceQuery]
WHERE Query IN LIKE
(
SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
)
I believe the OP is trying to do something like that.

Answer 6

This is my way:
First create a table function:
create function [splitDelimeter](#str nvarchar(max), #delimeter nvarchar(10)='*')
returns #r table(val nvarchar(max))
as
begin
declare #x nvarchar(max)=#str
set #x='<m>'+replace(#x, #delimeter, '</m><m>')+'</m>'
declare #xx xml=cast(#x as xml)
insert #r(val)
SELECT Tbl.Col.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') id
FROM #xx.nodes('/m') Tbl(Col)
return
end
Then split the search text with your preference delimeter. After that you can do your select with left join as below:
declare #s nvarchar(max)='% Main Street*foo %'
select a.* from street a
left join gen.splitDelimeter(#s, '*') b
on a.streetname like b.val
where val is not null

Answer 7

What I did when solving a similar problem was:
SELECT DISTINCT S.*
FROM Street AS S
JOIN (SELECT value FROM String_Split('% Main Street,foo %', N',')) T
ON S.StreetName LIKE T.value;
Which is functionally similar to Martin's answer but a more direct answer to the question.
Note: DISTINCT is used because you might get multiple matches for a single row.