During development you might want to pass a list of entities to a query or command. The recommended and safest way is to wrap every item in a parameter and pass it to the query. The problem is that the number of parameters that can be passed to a user function, stored procedure or even dynamic query is limited. The first two are set to 2100 entries per documentation. The third can vary based on the sql server version and the size of the actual parameters. In Sql Server 2008 it’s 65,536 * size of the network packet.

There are numerous way of dealing with this and I’ll describe two possible solutions and one how to not do this, so let’s start.