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How to put more than 1000 values into an Oracle IN clause

Asked 2008-12-30T13:35:17.673
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Is there any way to get around the Oracle 10g limitation of 1000 items in a static IN clause? I have a comma delimited list of many of IDs that I want to use in an IN clause, Sometimes this list can exceed 1000 items, at which point Oracle throws an error. The query is similar to this...

select * from table1 where ID in (1,2,3,4,...,1001,1002,...)
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Use ...from table(... :

create or replace type numbertype
as object
(nr number(20,10) )
/ 

create or replace type number_table
as table of numbertype
/ 

create or replace procedure tableselect
( p_numbers in number_table
, p_ref_result out sys_refcursor)
is
begin
  open p_ref_result for
    select *
    from employees , (select /*+ cardinality(tab 10) */ tab.nr from table(p_numbers) tab) tbnrs 
    where id = tbnrs.nr; 
end; 
/ 

This is one of the rare cases where you need a hint, else Oracle will not use the index on column id. One of the advantages of this approach is that Oracle doesn't need to hard parse the query again and again. Using a temporary table is most of the times slower.

edit 1 simplified the procedure (thanks to jimmyorr) + example

create or replace procedure tableselect
( p_numbers in number_table
, p_ref_result out sys_refcursor)
is
begin
  open p_ref_result for
    select /*+ cardinality(tab 10) */ emp.*
    from  employees emp
    ,     table(p_numbers) tab
    where tab.nr = id;
end;
/

Example:

set serveroutput on 

create table employees ( id number(10),name varchar2(100));
insert into employees values (3,'Raymond');
insert into employees values (4,'Hans');
commit;

declare
  l_number number_table := number_table();
  l_sys_refcursor sys_refcursor;
  l_employee employees%rowtype;
begin
  l_number.extend;
  l_number(1) := numbertype(3);
  l_number.extend;
  l_number(2) := numbertype(4);
  tableselect(l_number, l_sys_refcursor);
  loop
    fetch l_sys_refcursor into l_employee;
    exit when l_sys_refcursor%notfound;
    dbms_output.put_line(l_employee.name);
  end loop;
  close l_sys_refcursor;
end;
/

This will output:

Raymond
Hans
answered 2008-12-30T13:55:28.630
0

Instead of using IN clause, can you try using JOIN with the other table, which is fetching the id. that way we don't need to worry about limit. just a thought from my side.

answered 2012-08-01T12:54:34.180

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