Question

Is it possible to use a wildcard for the where in statement in SQL Server 2008?

For example, I currently have:

SELECT something  
FROM myTable  
WHERE    (ORG + '-' + ORGSUB like '5015001-________' or
          ORG + '-' + ORGSUB like '5015018-________' or 
          ORG + '-' + ORGSUB like '_______-________')

I need to do it this way:

SELECT something  
FROM myTable 
WHERE
   (ORG + '-' + ORGSUB) in( '5015001-________','5015018-________','_______-________')

i’m going to be passing those values through a stored procedure as a comma delimited list. is there another way to get it done?

Answer 1

Take your comma delimited list, split it, and insert it into a temp table…

You can then use a LIKE statement in a JOIN to this temp table:

SELECT something
FROM myTable mt
JOIN #tempTable tt
    ON mt.ORG + '-' + mt.ORGSUB LIKE tt.SearchValue