SQL: Return “true” if list of records exists?

Question

An alternative title might be: Check for existence of multiple rows?

Using a combination of SQL and C# I want a method to return true if all products in a list exist

Answer 1

Assuming you're using SQL Server, the boolean type doesn't exist, but the bit type does, which can hold only 0 or 1 where 0 represents False, and 1 represents True.

I would go this way:

select 1
    from Products
    where ProductId IN (1, 10, 100)

Here, a null or no row will be returned (if no row exists).

Or even:

select case when EXISTS (
    select 1
        from Products
        where ProductId IN (1, 10, 100)
    ) then 1 else 0 end as [ProductExists]

Here, either of the scalar values 1 or 0 will always be returned (if no row exists).