Paul Ibison

Currently work in Aldgate, London for Pygmalion - a Microsoft CTEC - as a Trainer/Developer/Consultant. Specialise in SQL 2000 OLAP and am now beginning to learn Sharepoint Server and .NET
  • Interests: Collecting slide-rules and watching my complete collection of 'Are you being served'.

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How to Short-circuit Where Clauses

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 […]

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