RE: TSQL Case Statement help – SQLServerCentral

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October 2, 2012 at 7:18 am

Roland Alexander STL (10/2/2012)
You're getting an error because the CASE statement needs to be enclosed in parentheses.

I'm unaware of this as a requirement in TSQL.

I think it's more likely because the @ has been dropped from the variables in the CASE construct.

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