Get value from integer type string!

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I have a table tblTest where I am saving category id like (1,2,3,4). category id is integer but user can select more than one category. So i want to get category name from this string like (category A,category B, category C,..) . Have any idea for same?

Posted 2-Jun-14 0:47am

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**Nirav Prabtani** · Answer 1 · 2014-06-02T00:55:00

Solution 1

you can select mutiple item by multiple id using 'in' clause in sql like this

SQL

SELECT * FROM tableName where id in (value1,value2,value3)

Posted 2-Jun-14 0:55am

Nirav Prabtani

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rummer 3-Jun-14 1:00am

I know this query but this is a single string like ('1,2,3')
can't do this type?

Maciej Los · Answer 2 · 2014-06-02T07:25:00

Solution 2

SQL

SELECT CategoryId, CategoryName
FROM Categories
WHERE CategryId IN (1,2,3)

or

SQL

SELECT CategoryId, CategoryName
FROM Categories
WHERE CategryName IN ('Category A','Category B','Category C')

Posted 2-Jun-14 7:25am

Maciej Los

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rummer 3-Jun-14 0:59am

I know this query but this is a single string like ('1,2,3')
can't do this type?

rummer 3-Jun-14 0:59am

DECLARE @STRING VARCHAR(300)
SET @STRING = '1,2'

SELECT * FROM [ATS_NEW].[dbo].[tbl_Category] WHERE catid IN (@STRING)

Error- Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,2' to data type int.