Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/06/05 00:11

A few more thoughts. If searches like your first example are common, it
may be a good idea to make an optimization so that you only run query
in this case. Of course this adds to the complexity to your code.

And, I am not sure that a stored procedure is the best thing to package
this, particularly not if you will try to make shortcuts. It's probably
better to generate the queries from a client language. Of course, on
SQL 2005, you could do this from a CLR stored procedure.

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