WHERE IN (array of IDs)

Question

I have webservice which is passed an array of ints. I\'d like to do the select statement as follows but keep getting errors. Do I need to change the array to a string?

Answer 1

First you're going to need a function and a sproc. The function will split your data and return a table:

CREATE function IntegerCommaSplit(@ListofIds nvarchar(1000))
returns @rtn table (IntegerValue int)
AS
begin
While (Charindex(',',@ListofIds)>0)
Begin
    Insert Into @Rtn 
    Select ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@ListofIds,1,Charindex(',',@ListofIds)-1)))
    Set @ListofIds = Substring(@ListofIds,Charindex(',',@ListofIds)+len(','),len(@ListofIds))
end
Insert Into @Rtn 
    Select  ltrim(rtrim(@ListofIds))
return 
end

Next you need a sproc to use that:

create procedure GetAdminEvents 
    @buildingids nvarchar(1000),
    @startdate datetime
as
SELECT id,startDateTime, endDateTime From
            tb_bookings t INNER JOIN 
dbo.IntegerCommaSplit(@buildingids) i
on i.IntegerValue = t.id
 WHERE startDateTime <= @fromDate

Finally, your code:

[WebMethod]
        public MiniEvent[] getAdminEvents(int[] buildingIDs, DateTime startDate)
        command.CommandText = @"exec GetAdminEvents";
 SqlParameter buildID= new SqlParameter("@buildingIDs", buildingIDs);

That goes way beyond what your question asked but it will do what you need.

Note: should you pass in anything that's not an int, the whole database function will fail. I leave the error handling for that as an exercise for the end user.