Question

OK I have a question to which an answer might be simple but im not sure how to do it:

Question:
How do i use IN with LIKE?

Why Not Duplicate:
Well I know if i have multiple strings i can use OR to check. But this is not the case with what i am trying to do.

Question Explaination:
I have an SP with a parameter @path, now i would like to send multiple paths, separated by delimiter, (to avoid calling sp multiple times). I split the string using a custom function which returns a table with splited values.
Now how would i go about using the values from that splited values table to be used with LIKE operator.

What I have done so far:

declare
    @path varchar(max) = 'CompanyRules/Billing/IntegrationServices|CompanyRules/Reports/IntegrationServices',
    @default_code varchar(max) = '1'

    declare @tempTable TABLE(path varchar(max))

    INSERT INTO @tempTable (path)
    SELECT split from fn_splitby(@path, '|')

    select prg.path, prg.default_code, prmd.optional_property_1, prmd.optional_property_2, prmd.optional_property_3, prmd.optional_property_4, prmd.optional_property_5, prmd.optional_property_6
    from pdm_rule_group prg, pdi_rule_master prmd
    where prg.path = prmd.path
    AND prg.path in (select path from @tempTable)
    AND prg.default_code != @default_code

The this will not yield any result.

Possible Solution:
What i though was that i have to loop through the @tempTable and then create separate strings to be used with LIKE. Which im sure is a bad solution, and may have some other solution to it.

Answer 1

Replace this statement

AND prg.path in (select path from @tempTable)

with

AND EXISTS (select 1 from @tempTable where   prg.path  like "%"+path+"%" )