How to Short-circuit Where Clauses

By Paul Ibison, 2001/11/25

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There are many times when you might be concatenating text in a stored procedure to make a where clause, because the input parameters are optional. An alternative is to create many versions of the stored procedure - one for each possible combination of parameters - which can soon become too big. There is a more viable alternative - use "lazy evaluation". In the following script, @Input mimics an input parameter. If it is the default (-1) then all records are returned, while other values of @Input are added to the where clause as normal.

By Paul Ibison, 2001/11/25

Total article views: 3470 | Views in the last 30 days: 64

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