SQL Server - In clause with a declared variable

Question

Let say I got the following :

DECLARE @ExcludedList VARCHAR(MAX)

SET @ExcludedList = 3 + ', ' + 4 + ' ,' + '22'

SELECT * FROM A WHERE Id NOT IN (@ExcludedList)

Error : Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ', ' to data type int.

I understand why the error is there but I don't know how to solve it...

Answer 1

You need to execute this as a dynamic sp like

DECLARE @ExcludedList VARCHAR(MAX)

SET @ExcludedList = '3,4,22,6014'
declare @sql nvarchar(Max)

Set @sql='SELECT * FROM [A] WHERE Id NOT IN ('+@ExcludedList+')'

exec sp_executesql @sql