Question

I have

SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Col1 IN(4,2,6)

I want to select and return the records with the specified order which i indicate in the IN clause
(first display record with Col1=4, Col1=2, …)

I can use

SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Col1 = 4
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Col1 = 6 , .....

but I don’t want to use that, cause I want to use it as a stored procedure and not auto generated.

Answer 1

You have a couple of options. Simplest may be to put the IN parameters (they are parameters, right) in a separate table in the order you receive them, and ORDER BY that table.