Sqlite Query for multiple values in one column

Question

I wanted to do query in table for field id with some vales like 1,5,4,11 which will come from previous screen according to selection.

cursor = database.query         


        

Answer 1

Use the IN operator instead of equality comparison (=).

Answer 2

You can use the IN operator like this,

cursor = database.query(tablename, new String[] {"TopName"}, "id IN(?,?)", 
                                        new String[]{"2","3"}, null, null, null);

Answer 3

The correct syntax for using the IN operator in Android's ContentProvider is as follows:

cursor = database.query(contentUri, projection, "columname IN(?,?)", new String[]{"value1" , "value2"}, sortOrder);

Alternatively, we can also use,

cursor = database.query(contentUri, projection, "columnName IN(?)", new String[] {" 'value1' , 'value2' "}, sortOrder);

Note that we need single quotes around each comma-separated value in the arguments for second case, otherwise the whole string will be treated as one value for the column. The SQL will treat it as

SELECT * FROM table WHERE columnName IN ('value1,value2')

instead of the correct syntax

SELECT * FROM table WHERE columnName IN ('value1' , 'value2')

Answer 4

I would like to put this here since a compendium of answers helped me putting multiple (unknown) values in SQLiteDatabase.query() and the one-question-mark did not work for me. Hope helps anyone

// API > 24
protected String attributesAsMarks(String[] attributes) {
    List<String> marks = Collections.nCopies(attributes.length, "?");

    return marks.stream().collect(Collectors.joining(","));
}

// I'm using API > 15
protected String attributesAsMarks(String[] attributes) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String separator = "";

    for (String s : attributes) {
        if (s == null) continue;

        sb.append(separator).append("?");
        separator = ",";
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

Thanks to

• @Lalit
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/5600690/1358777
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/38546936/1358777
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/524089/1358777

Answer 5

For the SelectionArgs section I think you need to change:

new String[]{"2,3"}

To

new String[]{"2","3"}

Answer 6

VolkerK was first to correctly answer the question, but for the sake of completeness here is a full example of how to use the IN operator:

cursor = database.query(tablename,
                new String[] { "TopName" }, "id IN (?)", new String[]{"2,3"}, null, null, null);