SQL Server: ORDER BY parameters in IN statement

Question

I have a SQL statement that is the following:

SELECT A.ID, A.Name 
FROM Properties A 
WHERE A.ID IN (110, 105, 104, 106)

When I run this SQ

Answer 1

Another solution for this problem is prepare a temporary table for IN clause like

declare @InTable table (ID int, SortOrder int not null identity(1,1));

We can fill this temp table with your data in order you want

insert into @InTable values (110), (105), (104), (106);

At last we need to modify your question to use this temp table like this

select A.ID, A.Name 
from Properties A 
inner join @InTable as Sort on A.ID = Sort.ID
order by Sort.SortOrder

On the output you can see this

ID  Name
110 South
105 East
104 West
106 North

In this solution you don't need to provide order in special way. You just need to insert values in order you want.