[AccessD] Stored Procedure SQL IN Clause

Normally for statements like these it is necessary to concatenate strings
together and use the EXEC keyword to run the resulting string.  For example:

CREATE PROCEDURE uspResidenceTypeList
@InClause Varchar(200)
AS
EXEC ('SELECT * FROM tblClient WHERE ResidenceType IN (' + @InClause + ')')

Let me know if you find another way of doing this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Stewart [mailto:rl_stewart at highstream.net]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:16 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Cc: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Stored Procedure SQL IN Clause


All,

The end of last week, I was working on a stored procedure in SQL Server.  I 
wanted it to be able to pass in information via a parameter to populate an 
IN clause in the SQL statement so I could use a multi-select list box for 
the control on the form.

Here is what I was trying:

I have a list of residence types (house, hotel, mobile home, homeless, 
etc.).  I wanted to be able to select one or more in the list box.

The Stored Procedure looked something like this:

CREATE PROCEDURE uspResidenceTypeList
@InClause Varchar(200)
AS
SELECT *
FROM tblClient
WHERE (ResidenceType IN(@InClause)

This works for a single value, i.e. 'Homeless', but it returns no records 
when I pass in multiple values.

Does someone have any ideas about what I can do to get this to work?

Thanks,

Robert

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