Order results basing on IN Clause.

Hi,

I'd been searching a little about that case but didn˛t find an answer.

I have a query, eg:

Select * from items where itemCode in(32123,321259,12489,45896)

I would like to have a result ordered in the same order in which i put items code to IN clause.

Is that possible? I`ve been thinking about creating programatically in .NET a SQL query made with UNION like:

Select * from items where itemcode = 32123
UNION
Select * from items where itemcode = 321259
etc.

The result will be as expected, but I think this will load a database too much for a bigger amount of items.

Thanks for Your help.
Peter

You haven't mentioned what RDBMS you are using.

In SQL Server you can insert the filters in a temporary table. The temporary table should have a auto-increment primary key.

Then inner join that temporary table with your main table on the "itemcode" field and oder by the auto-id field.

Sorry, my fault.
I use Ms SQl Server 2008 R2.

Thanks for the tip -I`ll try this way.

Thanks