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Dear All,
This may sound a simple query but a non technical person like me is not able to do it, So please help me out.
I m using Unix... isql
I jst wanted to do something like following

select * from xyz
where ID= xxxxxxxx (8 digit ID)

Here if i put single 8 digit ID then the query is returning me the details of that particular ID,... Fine... but instead of selecting single ID if i want to select say 100 specific IDs by providing list of IDs then how do i do it?
My email ID is removed email id
Looking forward for ur appreciable help. :-)

hi

do you want to have those 100 ids only or there could be more than that?

May be you can try this..

Solution(1)
=========
(1) Create a temp table with coln : ID
(2) Copy 100 Ids.
If you are using isql, then BCP 100 ids to temp table
(3) Modify the query

select * from
xyz x,
temp t
where x.ID= t.ID

Solution(2)
=========
(1) Use excel spread sheet & paste the 100 Ids
(2) use spread sheet macro & add "," for each ID
Example:

1000,
1001,
1002, and so on

(3) Use the below query..( paste Ids from spread sheet)

select * from xyz
where ID in (
1000,
1001,
1002, -- paste from spread sheet
...
)

Hope above solution helps

Hey Sathy,
Gr888....Thanx for ur quick reply, I tried last i.e. 3rd solution which is working fine. Also interested in using 1st solution provided by u but not getting how exactly creating a temp table... It would be gr8 help if u explain 1st solution little more.
Thnax.

Here are the steps...

(1) creating temp table:
create table temp ( ID int)

(2) BCP data:

bcp DB-name..temp in text.dat -U<userid> -P<password> -c -eERR.dat

;DB-name: Database name
;text.dat: Should contain 100 IDs

After successful BCP, data will be in temp table

(3) Run the query:

select * from
xyz x,
temp t
where x.ID= t.ID

Hey thanx again for the quick reply.... I tried temp table as well, but some how its not working, may b i m doin somethin wrong... But still i m happy with 2nd n 3rd Solution provided by u...
Thanx once again...
:-) wish u all the best