>My only concern is the time and logging involved in writing a large amount of items to the temp. table although I have used this technique multiple times. Usually the stored procedure accepts an XML document containing the items of interest. The XML is despooled into a table variable which is referenced by the query.
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>You could profile both techniques but you'd have to try numerous items.
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>-Mike

Yes! XML will be great solution. Why hadn't you propose it to Kevin? This is very ingenious idea.