I have to agree with Andrew's comment on using the IF...ELSE statement. 

You repeat your search for @Value IS NULL twice, first right after the WHERE clause and secondly as...

I can only think of the obvious answer.  Ask them.

Of course, if you don't work for the DOD, then you probably won't get an answer.  If you do work...

Actually, it's a char(2) and the value will never be less (unless it's NULL and I've got that check taken care of).

But the warning is well heeded.  There are days...

WHOOHOO!

I had to sacrifice my % sign because the table I was updating had integers in the columns instead of characters, but I finally made my percentages Pivot table dynamic. ...

Unfortunately, I can't see your pictures.  My browser is just showing two little white boxes with red X's in them.

Can you paste in text?

Darnit...

I was hoping that wasn't the answer.  I ran into that problem this morning with a T-SQL send mail proc that doesn't use DBMail.  So I was hoping switching my...

DUH!  You're absolutely correct.  The extra GROUP BY was causing my DBZ error...

Now, to see if I can make this puppy dynamic...

What is the structure of tbl3215?  What columns do you have set up for Full Text Indexing?

HA!  Yes, I have declared an unused @sigh.  I'll see if I can't fix that and use it... over and over and over....  @=)

I tried your suggestion:

Msg 8115, Level...

Oh, the drama! @sigh.

Well, I've figured out how to get around the Divide by Zero error, but I can only make it work for one column.  I've also finally figured...

Hmmm.  I'm going to have to play with it because I keep getting "Divide by Zero" errors with your code.  Probably due to the ELSE 0 statement in the Cross...

Florida.  Where are you?

JV,

Noeld posted this link for me in my "dynamic pivoting" thread.  Take a look at it to see if maybe it'll help you.

http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/andras/archive/2007/09/14/37265.aspx

Noeld,

This link was EXACTLY what I needed.  Thanks!  I am emailing cookies to you. @=)

...or kudos or something... @=)

Joe,

You need to have your variable defaulting done BEFORE you do your SELECT statement.  Otherwise, it won't work.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[search]

(

 @ittNumber nvarchar(max),

 @ittdescription nvarchar(max),

 @itttitle nvarchar(max),

 @techsolution nvarchar(max),

 @search nvarchar(max)

)

AS

 SET NOCOUNT OFF;

if...