using dynamic IN clause in MSSQL

Question

Why the following SQL does not fetch me anything

DECLARE @Status AS VARCHAR(400)
SET @status = \'\'\'Closed\'\',\'\'OPEN\'\'\'
select * from MYTABLE where st         


        

Answer 1

You can if you want do some dynamic SQL but I think it is not really competitive..

  DECLARE   @Status nVARCHAR(400),
            @SQL nvarchar(500)

SET @status = '''Closed'''+','+'''OPEN'''
set @SQL = '
select * from [MYTABLE] where status in('+@status +')'

 exec sp_executesql @SQL
GO