Hi,
How do you perform comparison of an integer (or smallint) type column to a value with COALESCE?
For example, when in a stored procedure a parameter is optional I set the default value to NULL (if not passed). Then I use the following WHERE expression to return all rows if value not passed.
select * from mytable where Col_IntType = COALESCE(@param1, Col_IntType)
The above works but I was wondering if there is a better way.
TIA.
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