Where IN condition not working Store procedures

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Hi Team,

I am very new to this page. I am facing two issues when i tried to make a SP in sql 2005.

SQL

CREATE proc Dept (@department varchar(30))      
as      
	Select * from test1      
	where [Department] in (@department)

the above sp is working find when i am passing one value i.e

SQL

exec dept 'a'

But when i try to execute more then one value in @department. Its not working fine i.e.

SQL

exec dept 'a','b'

but when i tried to check my query. its giving me results

SQL

Select * from test1      
	where [Department] in ('a','b')

Why its not working in SP.

The second this i would like to pass @department from asp.net through C#

Posted 29-Apr-12 21:48pm

Jaggi_singh

Updated 29-Apr-12 21:52pm

Rahul Rajat Singh

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Rahul Rajat Singh · Answer 1 · 2012-04-29T21:55:00

Solution 1

Your stored procedure is defined to accept only one parameter. If you try to pass multiple parameters then it wont work.

If you need to pass variable number of parameters to sp then perhaps you will have to imclude some delimiter in your parameter list and pass that list as single patameter into the SP.

i.e.

SQL

exec dept 'a, b'

(watch the single quote)

and inside your sp you will have to extract the values from this comma separated list and then you them in the actual query.

Posted 29-Apr-12 21:55pm

Rahul Rajat Singh

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Jaggi_singh 30-Apr-12 4:05am

Rahul, You can suggest some code bro.

i need to use this in asp.net to pass a string to fetch some data from table in a list box :)

Rahul Rajat Singh 30-Apr-12 4:28am

To achieve what I just said just refer this article and you will get what you want

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5986/Passing-a-Comma-Delimited-Parameter-to-a-Stored-Pr

Sebastian T Xavier · Answer 2 · 2012-04-29T21:57:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Can you try it as follows?

SQL

exec dept 'a,b'

It should work.

Regards
Sebastian

Posted 29-Apr-12 21:57pm

Sebastian T Xavier

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Rahul Rajat Singh 30-Apr-12 4:29am

How will it work if the SP itself is not tuned to handle comma separated values.

Jaggi_singh · Answer 3 · 2012-04-29T22:03:00

Solution 3

Hi Sebastian,

Its not working :(

Exec Dept ('a,b')

a,b are the values of a table with Header Department

Posted 29-Apr-12 22:03pm

Jaggi_singh