Question

Apologies if this should be fairly obvious! If I have a cell array of keys – how should I best query these against a database?

For example if I have the cell array:

Names = { 'Jon', 'Peter', 'Paul' };

Do I have to write the SQL in the form:

select *
from x
where name = 'Jon' or name = 'Peter' or name = 'Paul';

Or is there some way of writing it of the form:

select *
from x
where name = {Names};

Whilst I can write a function to generate the where clause, this feels far from ideal!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use IN

SELECT *
FROM   x
WHERE  name IN ('Jon', 'Peter', 'Paul')