Question

Is it possible to select individual rows within a table from a list of one column variables?

e.g. I’m trying to select just certain products from a table of products, using a list of ID numbers

Example table “items”:

item_id    item_title    item_source
-------    ----------    -----------
123        item A        place_a
124        item B        place_b
125        item C        place_c
126        item D        place_d

Here’s what I’m trying, but it’s not working:

select item_title, item_source from items where item_id IN ('123','125','126')

I want to return:

item A        place_a
item C        place_c
item D        place_d

Answer 1

just get rid of the quotes (assuming your field item_id is an integer)

select item_title, item_source from items where item_id IN (123,125,126)