>I'm sure I knew the answer to this and even used it but for some reason I am currently brain dead.
>
>I want to pass in from VFP a comma separated string of character values to this where clause
>
>WHERE Future_change.Symbol IN (@symbollist)
>
>If I use
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>WHERE Future_change.Symbol IN ('ES032','AXA','GOOG')
>
>in SSMS I get exactly the results I want.
>
>Even in SSMS, though, I can't remember how to set the value in @symbollist ( varchar(100))
>so as to get the equivalent of ['ES032','AXA','GOOG']
>
>I'm sure I asked this before but for some reason the answer doesn't stick.
>
>TIA

Take a look at the very recent and great article by Jeff Moden
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/

BTW, in SQL 2008 you don't need to pass comma-delimited list of values anymore - you can pass a table of values.

You may also want to review this classical article by Erland Sommarskog
Arrays & Lists in SQL Server