SQL NOT LIKE comparison against dynamic list - tsql

Question

Working on a new TSQL Stored Procedure, I am wanting to get all rows where values in a specific column don't start with any of a specific set of 2 character substrings.
The general idea is:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE value NOT LIKE 's1%' AND value NOT LIKE 's2%' AND value NOT LIKE 's3%'.
The catch is that I am trying to make it dynamic so that the specific substrings can be pulled from another table in the database, which can have more values added to it.
While I have never used the IN operator before, I think something along these lines should do what I am looking for, however, I don't think it is possible to use wildcards with IN, so I might not be able to compare just the substrings.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE value NOT IN (SELECT substrings FROM subTable)
To get around that limitation, I am trying to do something like this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE SUBSTRING(value, 1, 2) NOT IN (SELECT Prefix FROM subTable WHERE Prefix IS NOT NULL)
but I'm not sure this is right, or if it is the most efficient way to do this. My preference is to do this in a Stored Procedure, but if that isn't feasible or efficient I'm also open to building the query dynamically in C#.

Answer 1

Here's an option. Load values you want to filter to a table, left outer join and use PATINDEX().
DECLARE #FilterValues TABLE
(
[FilterValue] NVARCHAR(10)
);
--Table with values we want filter on.
INSERT INTO #FilterValues (
[FilterValue]
)
VALUES ( N's1' )
, ( N's2' )
, ( N's3' );
DECLARE #TestData TABLE
(
[TestValues] NVARCHAR(100)
);
--Load some test data
INSERT INTO #TestData (
[TestValues]
)
VALUES ( N's1 Test Data' )
, ( N's2 Test Data' )
, ( N's3 Test Data' )
, ( N'test data not filtered out' )
, ( N'test data not filtered out 1' );
SELECT a.*
FROM #TestData [a]
LEFT OUTER JOIN #FilterValues [b]
ON PATINDEX([b].[FilterValue] + '%', [a].[TestValues]) > 0
WHERE [b].[FilterValue] IS NULL;