use IN clause and Like in T-SQL

Question

I want to select some data in sql express by IN clause and LIKE but no row returned. my code is here :

SELECT        PointId, PointTitleId, PointTitleName, PointTitleContentText
FROM          PointsTitlesData
WHERE        (PointTitleContentText LIKE '%' + @SearchingClause + '%') 
             AND (PointId IN ('2','3'))

above code don't return any data but when i use only LIKE code return data.

SELECT        PointId, PointTitleId, PointTitleName, PointTitleContentText
FROM          PointsTitlesData
WHERE        (PointTitleContentText LIKE '%' + @SearchingClause + '%')

how can i use both IN and LIKE? Thanks.

Answer 1

I tried to recreate your scenario with the script below

Declare @SearchingClause nvarchar(20);

Create table PointsTitlesData (Pointid int, PointTitleContentText nvarchar(20));

insert into PointsTitlesData (Pointid, PointTitleContentText)
values ( 1, 'aaamypoint1aaa'), (2, 'bbbmypoint2bbb'),(3,'cccmypoint3ccc');

Set @SearchingClause = 'mypoint2';

SELECT        PointId, PointTitleContentText 
FROM          PointsTitlesData 
WHERE        (PointTitleContentText LIKE '%' + @SearchingClause + '%')  
         AND (PointId IN ('2','3')) 

-- above code don't return any data but when i use only LIKE code return data.

SELECT        PointId, PointTitleContentText 
FROM          PointsTitlesData 
WHERE        (PointTitleContentText LIKE '%' + @SearchingClause + '%') 

I got a result for both queries so it looks like you have a data issue. Have you tried

SELECT PointId from PointsTitlesData where ((PointId = 2) or (PointId = 3))

to check the data is there.

Regards Jude