Using tuples in SQL “IN” clause

Question

I have a table containing the fields group_id and group_type and I want to query the table for all the records having any tuple (group id, group type) from

Answer 1

In SQL Server 2008 you can do like this:

select *
from mytable as T
where exists (select *
              from (values ('1234-567', 2), 
                           ('4321-765', 3), 
                           ('1111-222', 5)) as V(group_id, group_type)
              where T.group_id = V.group_id and
                    T.group_type = V.group_type               
             )