Question

how can i write the store procedure for searching particular string in a column of table, for given set of strings (CSV string).

like : select * from xxx where tags like (‘oscar’,’rahman’,’slumdog’)

how can i write the procedure for that combination of tags.

Answer 1

To create a comma seperated string…

You could then apply this list to Oded example to create the LIKE parts of the WHERE cluase on the fly.

DECLARE @pos int, @curruntLocation char(20), @input varchar(2048)
SELECT @pos=0
SELECT @input = 'oscar,rahman,slumdog'
SELECT @input = @input + ','

CREATE TABLE #tempTable (temp varchar(100) )

WHILE CHARINDEX(',',@input) > 0
BEGIN
SELECT @pos=CHARINDEX(',',@input)
SELECT @curruntLocation = RTRIM(LTRIM(SUBSTRING(@input,1,@pos-1)))
INSERT INTO #tempTable (temp) VALUES (@curruntLocation)
SELECT @input=SUBSTRING(@input,@pos+1,2048)
END

SELECT * FROM #tempTable
DR0P TABLE #tempTable