How to SORT in order as entered in SQL Server?

Question

I\'m using SQL Server and I\'m trying to find results but I would like to get the results in the same order as I had input the conditions.

My code:

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Answer 1

I will offer one more approach I just found out, but this needs v2016. Regrettfully the developers forgot to include the index into the resultset of STRING_SPLIT(), but this would work and is documented:

A solution via FROM OPENJSON():

DECLARE @str VARCHAR(100) = 'val1,val2,val3';

SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON('["' +  REPLACE(@str,',','","') + '"]');

The result

key value   type
0   val1    1
1   val2    1
2   val3    1

The documentation tells clearly:

When OPENJSON parses a JSON array, the function returns the indexes of the elements in the JSON text as keys.