I have a form with 3 check box dropdown lists enabling multiple selection from each control.
Lets say for talking sake its an accommodation table I am querying and the check box dropdown lists are 'AccommodationName', 'Company', and 'Nights'.
So potentially I could be passing in multiple values from each control and I want to return an aggregated query relevant to all data input.
How should I be going about this query?
Is the query going to have to be dynamic sql?
Please note, I am using sql server 2005.
You will need to create a split function inside you database,
Definition Of Split Function
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[split]
(
@delimited NVARCHAR(MAX),
@delimiter NVARCHAR(100)
)
RETURNS @t TABLE (id INT IDENTITY(1,1), val NVARCHAR(MAX))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @xml XML
SET @xml = N'<t>' + REPLACE(@delimited,@delimiter,'</t><t>') + '</t>'
INSERT INTO @t(val)
SELECT r.value('.','varchar(MAX)') as item
FROM @xml.nodes('/t') as records(r)
RETURN
END
Stored Procedure
Then you need to create a stored procedure which will build sql query dynamically and use this split function to handle multiple values passed as a comma deliminated list.
CREATE PROCEDURE GetData
@AccommodationName VARCHAR(1000) = NULL,
@Company VARCHAR(1000) = NULL,
@Nights VARCHAR(1000) = NULL
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX);
SET @SQL = N' SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE 1 = 1 '
+ CASE WHEN @AccommodationName IS NOT NULL
THEN N' AND AccommodationName IN (SELECT Val FROM dbo.split(@AccommodationName )) '
ELSE N'' END
+ CASE WHEN @Company IS NOT NULL
THEN N' AND Company IN (SELECT Val FROM dbo.split(@Company)) '
ELSE N'' END
+ CASE WHEN @Nights IS NOT NULL
THEN N' AND Nights IN (SELECT Val FROM dbo.split(@Nights)) '
ELSE N'' END
EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQL
,N'@AccommodationName VARCHAR(1000), @Company VARCHAR(1000), @Nights VARCHAR(1000)'
,@AccommodationName
,@Company
,@Nights
END