st: odbc load from SQL if ID is in my Stata master dataset?

[Jen Zhen <jenzhen99@gmail.com>]

Dear list members,

I have a list of person ID numbers for whom I would like to merge in
information from a large SQL dataset (containing the IDs in the first
list, plus many more).

I assume that I cannot directly merge in from the SQL dataset, but
must first load the SQL dataset into Stata, save as dta, and then I
can merge that into my main dataset.

However, I'm wondering how, when loading from SQL with --odbc load-- I
can best specify that I'm only interested in observations with a fixed
list of ID numbers?

What would work is to write "WHERE id=51 OR id=332 OR ...", but since
I have several hundred valid IDs this seems inefficient.

Would anyone happen to know a better way?

Thanks so much and best regards,
JZ
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