SQL query to translate a list of numbers matched against several ranges, to a list of values

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Published on 2010-04-14T08:35:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 11:23 UTC
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I need to convert a list of numbers that fall within certain ranges into a list of values, ordered by a priority column. The table has the following values:

| YEAR | R_MIN |  R_MAX | VAL | PRIO |
------------------------------------
  2010   18000    90100   52    6
  2010  240000   240099   82    3
  2010  250000   259999   50    5
  2010  260000   260010   92    1
  2010  330000   330010   73    4
  2010  330011   370020   50    5
  2010  380000   380050   84    2

The ranges will be different for different years. The ranges within one year will never overlap.

The input will be a year and a list of numbers that might fall within one these ranges. The list of input number will be small, 1 to 10 numbers. Example of input numbers:

(20000, 240004, 375000, 255000)

With that input I would like to get a list ordered by the priority column, or a single value:

82
50
52

The only value I'm interested in here is 82, so UNIQUE and MAX_RESULTS=1 would do. It can easily be done with one query per number, and then sorting it in the Java code, but I would prefer to do it in a single SQL query.

What SQL query, to be run in an Oracle database, would give me the desired result?

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