Using comma-delimited lists in SQL searches

Today I wanted to run a search against a comma-delimited list of values, a little like this:

Select name from People Where category IN ('N,S,L,C')

I wanted the comma-delimited list to be set as a parameter value in a stored procedure. However, the IN operator cannot accept a comma-delimited string. It only accepts comma-delimited constants or the results of a SQL query.

Eventually I found this excellent solution on the 4 Guys site. It shows you how to build a UDF (user-defined function) that will split a comma-delimted string into a recordset representation, and then how to make use of it. It's a neat and effective solution.

Language code

The following table lists all the possible language codes used to specify various system settings.

af	Afrikaans	sq	Albanian
ar-sa	Arabic (Saudi Arabia)	ar-iq	Arabic (Iraq)
ar-eg	Arabic (Egypt)	ar-ly	Arabic (Libya)
ar-dz	Arabic (Algeria)	ar-ma	Arabic (Morocco)
ar-tn	Arabic (Tunisia)	ar-om	Arabic (Oman)
ar-ye	Arabic (Yemen)	ar-sy	Arabic (Syria)
ar-jo	Arabic (Jordan)	ar-lb	Arabic (Lebanon)
ar-kw	Arabic (Kuwait)	ar-ae	Arabic (U.A.E.)
ar-bh	Arabic (Bahrain)	ar-qa	Arabic (Qatar)
eu	Basque	bg	Bulgarian
be	Belarusian	ca	Catalan
zh-tw	Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-cn	Chinese (PRC)
zh-hk	Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)	zh-sg	Chinese (Singapore)
hr	Croatian	cs	Czech
da	Danish	nl	Dutch (Standard)
nl-be	Dutch (Belgium)	en	English
en-us	English (United States)	en-gb	English (United Kingdom)
en-au	English (Australia)	en-ca	English (Canada)
en-nz	English (New Zealand)	en-ie	English (Ireland)
en-za	English (South Africa)	en-jm	English (Jamaica)
en	English (Caribbean)	en-bz	English (Belize)
en-tt	English (Trinidad)	et	Estonian
fo	Faeroese	fa	Farsi
fi	Finnish	fr	French (Standard)
fr-be	French (Belgium)	fr-ca	French (Canada)
fr-ch	French (Switzerland)	fr-lu	French (Luxembourg)
gd	Gaelic (Scotland)	ga	Irish
de	German (Standard)	de-ch	German (Switzerland)
de-at	German (Austria)	de-lu	German (Luxembourg)
de-li	German (Liechtenstein)	el	Greek
he	Hebrew	hi	Hindi
hu	Hungarian	is	Icelandic
id	Indonesian	it	Italian (Standard)
it-ch	Italian (Switzerland)	ja	Japanese
ko	Korean	ko	Korean (Johab)
lv	Latvian	lt	Lithuanian
mk	Macedonian (FYROM)	ms	Malaysian
mt	Maltese	no	Norwegian (Bokmal)
no	Norwegian (Nynorsk)	pl	Polish
pt-br	Portuguese (Brazil)	pt	Portuguese (Portugal)
rm	Rhaeto-Romanic	ro	Romanian
ro-mo	Romanian (Republic of Moldova)	ru	Russian
ru-mo	Russian (Republic of Moldova)	sz	Sami (Lappish)
sr	Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr	Serbian (Latin)
sk	Slovak	sl	Slovenian
sb	Sorbian	es	Spanish (Spain)
es-mx	Spanish (Mexico)	es-gt	Spanish (Guatemala)
es-cr	Spanish (Costa Rica)	es-pa	Spanish (Panama)
es-do	Spanish (Dominican Republic)	es-ve	Spanish (Venezuela)
es-co	Spanish (Colombia)	es-pe	Spanish (Peru)
es-ar	Spanish (Argentina)	es-ec	Spanish (Ecuador)
es-cl	Spanish (Chile)	es-uy	Spanish (Uruguay)
es-py	Spanish (Paraguay)	es-bo	Spanish (Bolivia)
es-sv	Spanish (El Salvador)	es-hn	Spanish (Honduras)
es-ni	Spanish (Nicaragua)	es-pr	Spanish (Puerto Rico)
sx	Sutu	sv	Swedish
sv-fi	Swedish (Finland)	th	Thai
ts	Tsonga	tn	Tswana
tr	Turkish	uk	Ukrainian
ur	Urdu	ve	Venda
vi	Vietnamese	xh	Xhosa
ji	Yiddish	zu	Zulu