How can I check whether a number is contained in comma separated list stored in a varchar column?

Question

I have a table with a varchar column categoryIds. It contains some IDs separated by commas, for example:

id       categoryIds
-----         


        

Answer 1

You could use dynamic SQL like this:

DECLARE     @categoryIds    nvarchar(50) = '1, 2, 3, 4, 5'

EXEC        ('SELECT      *
              FROM        myTable
              WHERE       categoryId IN (' + @categoryIds + ')')