query criteria format

I have a text box that is used to submit stock symbols that are to be saved in a sql table. The symbols are to be separated by a space or a comma (I don't know which, yet). I want to retrieve the symbols later to be used in a query, but I don't know how to get the symbols in the proper string format for the query, eg

The symbols are stored in the tables as: A B C D
The query string criteria would look like: IN('A', 'B', 'C', 'D')

The IN('A', 'B', 'C', 'D') citeria would be the values in the @.Symbol variable in this SPROC

SELECT a_Name_Symbol.Symbol, a_Financials.Revenue
FROM a_Financials INNER JOIN
a_Name_Symbol ON a_Financials.Symbol = a_Name_Symbol.Symbol
WHERE (a_Name_Symbol.Symbol @.Symbol)
ORDER BY a_Name_Symbol.Symbol

Is there a slick (ie easy) way to change the contents entered in the text box (A B C D) into IN('A', 'B', 'C', 'D') ?

Thanks,

PaulThis might not be the best way, but here goes:

string symbols = "'" + txtBox.Text.Replace(" ", "', '") + "'";

Query completes on one box but not another

I've got an issue where a join takes about 3 minutes to run on a development server (2 X 1.4 GHz/ 2GB / Win2K3SP1 / SQL2KSP4 (8.00.2187) standard) and does not finish (even after 10 Hours!) on a monster (8 X ? GHz/ 12GB / Win2K3SP1 / SQL2KSP4 (8.00.2187) clustered Enterprise) data center test machine.

This is a join between a table with 360K rows and another with 5.6 Mil rows. Identical data, schema, indexes, auto-stats, etc. between the two boxes. I see no CXPackets, so the parallel processing issue doesn't seem to apply.

Any ideas what to look for?I'm not a SQLserver user, so this is just a guess from my DB2 background.

Apparently the optimizer chose different access paths in both cases, despite of identical indexes and statistics. Maybe the optimizer got (badly) influenced by the higher performance of the second box?

I guess you can ask the systems for their respective access paths?

Query building based on user selections

I currently have a form that has different options in a list box such as:

Status Codes

Division Codes

Project Managers

Report Types

The user can select a value from any one of these and hit a search button to run a query. Currently I am running through some IF statements to evaluate which combination of values were selected to run the right SQL code. Example

A user wants to view reports that have a status code of "Active" and a division code of "001". So my if statement would be something like (not in perfect syntax, just trying to get the point across):

if strStats <>"" and strDivision <>"" and strProjMgr ="" and strRptType ="" thenselect ...from ...where status_cd = strStats and division_cd = strDivision

end if

So my question is this: Is there a way to build the query dynamically (1 time) without having to run through all the senarios? 

Yes. you could write a query as:

select ...
from ...
where status_cd = ISNULL(@.strStats,status_cd)

and division_cd = ISNULL(@.strDivision,division_cd )

and ...

pass the values for @.strStats and @.strDivision. You can pass the parameters in any combination.

|||So this basically allows a condition to be null or a value can be passed?|||Yes.