DataSet with many OR clauses

Question

Hello :)

I've got a little problem with a query which I create in the Visual Studio Designer.

I need a query with a lot of 'OR'-clauses for the same column.

I found the operator 'IN', but I don't know how to use that in the Visual Studio Designer:

Example IN:

SELECT EmployeeID, FirstName, LastName, HireDate, City
FROM Employees
WHERE City IN ('Seattle', 'Tacoma', 'Redmond')

I tried to do it in this way:

SELECT [MachineryId], [ConstructionSiteId], [DateTime],
       [Latitude], [Longitude], [HoursCounter]
FROM [PositionData]
WHERE [MachineryID] IN @MachineryIDs

But this doesn't work.

Is there another way to handle a lot of OR clauses?

Thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

When doing an IN with a parameter it is used like below, fundamentally the same.

declare @SQL varchar(600)
set @SQL = 'select * from tbl where Cast([MachineryID] as varchar(255)) in ('+ @MachineryIDs +')'
EXEC(@SQL)

Answer 2

Check this SO question: Parameterizing a SQL IN clause?