Passing a varchar full of comma delimited values to a SQL Server IN function

Question

Duplicate of
Dynamic SQL Comma Delimited Value Query
Parameterized Queries with Like and In

I have a SQL Server Stored Procedure where I would like to pass a varchar full of comma delimited values to an IN function. For example:

DECLARE @Ids varchar(50);
SET @Ids = '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234';

SELECT * 
FROM sometable 
WHERE tableid IN (@Ids);

This does not work of course. I get the error:

Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234' to data type int.

How can I accomplish this (or something relatively similar) without resorting to building dynamic SQL?

Answer 1

Of course if you're lazy like me, you could just do this:

Declare @Ids varchar(50) Set @Ids = ',1,2,3,5,4,6,7,98,234,'

Select * from sometable
 where Charindex(','+cast(tableid as varchar(8000))+',', @Ids) > 0