Question

I’m using sql server 2005.
I’m trying to search people with few possible names.
something like this:

select PersonID from Person 
where Name like + '%' (select [value] dbo.fnSplit('David;John;Kevin', ';')) + '%'

But this doesn’t work.

Answer 1

select PersonID from Person p inner join
(select value as AName from dbo.fnSplit('David;John;Kevin', ';')) Names
on p.Name LIKE '%' + Names.Value + '%'

That should allow you to use the LIKE as you specified.