Question

I have a table of items and need to select the rows where the item ID is found inside a string formed and retrieved from elsewhere. For example the string to match looks like:

'100684','103223','103228'

or I can strip it to produce:

100684,103223,103228

But I am not getting any success from the following attempts:

SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where ID LIKE '" & strString & "'  "
SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where ID IN '" & strString & "'  "
SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where PATINDEX('%" & ID & "%','" & strString & "') > 0 "
SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where PATINDEX(ID,'" & strString & "') > 0 "
SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where CHARINDEX(ID, '" & strString & "') > 0 "

These either fail to produce a result or give an error like

Argument data type int is invalid for argument 1 of charindex function

Answer 1

Use stripped version of your string and try

SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table Where ID IN (" & strString & ")"