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Evaluating Boolean expressions using T-SQL

  • November 29, 2004 at 1:06 pm

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  • December 22, 2004 at 3:24 am

    #534722

    The first part of the procedure is good enough, but a better solution could be done for the final evaluation. Instead of using a temporary table, we can use output parameters in the sp_executesql procedure, like this:

    SET @boolExp='SELECT @res=CASE ABS(' + @boolExp + ') WHEN 1 THEN ''TRUE'' ELSE ''FALSE'' END'
EXEC sp_executesql @boolExp, N' @res varchar(5) OUTPUT', @res OUTPUT

    This way, we replace about 5 lines of code with only 2 and avoid the overhead of using a temporary table. To use the sp_executesql procedure we need to change the type of the @boolExp parameter to nvarchar(300) instead of varchar(300).

    Razvan

    PS. The SET NOCOUNT OFF and the DROP TABLE #temp at the end of the procedure are useless (because they are done anyway, automatically). Also useless is the big BEGIN/END block that contains the entire procedure.

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