T-SQL stored procedure that accepts multiple Id values

Question

Is there a graceful way to handle passing a list of ids as a parameter to a stored procedure?

For instance, I want departments 1, 2, 5, 7, 20 returned by my stored

Answer 1

A superfast XML Method, if you want to use a stored procedure and pass the comma separated list of Department IDs :

Declare @XMLList xml
SET @XMLList=cast(''+replace(@DepartmentIDs,',','')+'' as xml)
SELECT x.i.value('.','varchar(5)') from @XMLList.nodes('i') x(i))

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