phoenix_ (7/10/2013)
To be honest with you I don't like dynamic sql because of quotation marks '' which are making whole code harder to read 🙂So Instead of this I developed something like this:
where condition1 and (SomeDate >= CASE WHEN @StartDate is null THEN SomeDate ELSE @StartDate END or SomeDate is null)and (SomeDate <= CASE WHEN @EndDate is null THEN SomeDate ELSE @EndDate END or SomeDate is null) and condition2
This will work to a point. You will end up with some serious performance issues with this type of query though. Check out this article from Gail on the topic.
http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2009/03/19/catch-all-queries/[/url]
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