Naomi,

just to let you know I finally got around to trying this technique and was surprised at how easy it was to do.

>If you're using SQL Server 2008 and up, can you pass table valued parameter instead?
>SQL Server 2008 Table-Valued Parameters and C# Custom Iterators: A Match Made In Heaven!
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a stored procedure defined like this:
>>
>>

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[AirWayBillsSelectByManifestNumbers]
>>(
>>	@awb_manifestnumber varchar(100)
>>)
>>AS
>>	SET NOCOUNT ON;
>>
>>SELECT [awb_pk]
>>      ,[awb_keycode]
>>      ,[awb_manifestdate]
>>      ,[awb_manifestnumber]
>>      ,[awb_pieces]
>>      ,[awb_weight]
>>      ,[awb_cusfk]
>>      ,[awb_value]
>>      ,[awb_freight]
>>      ,[awb_fuel]
>>      ,[awb_insurance]
>>      ,[awb_number]
>>      ,[awb_shipper]
>>      ,[awb_description]
>>      ,[cus_number]
>>  FROM [dbo].[AirWayBills]
>>  inner join [dbo].[Customers] on awb_cusfk = cus_PK
>>	WHERE 
>>		([awb_manifestnumber] IN (@awb_manifestnumber))

>>
>>awb_manifestnumber is an int.
>>
>>This works fine if I send in one manifestnumber. However if I send in two like this: '12345,98765' I get an error that the string can't be converted to int. Which of course makes sense.
>>
>>I have tried a function to split the string into a table with integers and joining this table, but this is too slow and the reportviewer that I am using times out (apparently).
>>
>>This is the function I tried:
>>
>>http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7938/SQL-User-Defined-Function-to-Parse-a-Delimited-Str
>>
>>and my SP was:
>>
>>

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[AirWayBillsSelectByManifestNumbers]
>>(
>>	@awb_manifestnumber varchar(100)
>>)
>>AS
>>	SET NOCOUNT ON;
>>
>>if object_id('tepmdb..#awblist',N'U') IS NOT NULL drop table #awblist;
>>
>>select int_value
>>	into #awblist
>>	from dbo.fn_ParseText2Table(@awb_manifestnumber, ',')
>>
>>SELECT [awb_pk]
>>      ,[awb_keycode]
>>      ,[awb_manifestdate]
>>      ,[awb_manifestnumber]
>>      ,[awb_pieces]
>>      ,[awb_weight]
>>      ,[awb_cusfk]
>>      ,[awb_value]
>>      ,[awb_freight]
>>      ,[awb_fuel]
>>      ,[awb_insurance]
>>      ,[awb_number]
>>      ,[awb_shipper]
>>      ,[awb_description]
>>      ,[cus_number]
>>  FROM [dbo].[AirWayBills]
>>  inner join [dbo].[Customers] on awb_cusfk = cus_PK
>>  inner join #awblist on #awblist.int_value = awb_manifestnumber

>>
>>Any suggestions for alternatives or techniques to speed this up?
>>
>>In case it makes a difference, I am calling this from a C# WPF application and I build up the list of manifest numbers from a datagrid.