>HI
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>I have a complicated case structure which is used to format the salutation on a mail file.
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>If I want to include this case in several stored procedures or sql scripts is there a way I can include it from a single file .
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>Nick

One possibility is to create a scalar UDF. However, scalar UDFs in SQL Server don't perform too well.

The other possibility is to have inline table-valued function returning a row with your salutation. By CROSS APPLYing this function you should get a good performance.