Question

2Im in a big trouble, im refactoring a very big procedure to full text search, and I found a very important outer apply:

select top 1 *
from tablea
where
 column1 like
  case
   when @value = 1 or @value = 2 then '%' + @something + '%'
   else '%'
  end

The logic here is: if @value is 1 or 2, get the first register with @something inside. Else, get any register.

What I need now is:

select top 1 *
from tablea
where
  case
   when @value = 1 or @value = 2 then contains(column1, @something)
   else 1 = 1
  end

The code above dont work, its mal formed, and I have no clue how solve that.

Answer 1

select top 1 *
from tablea
where
   (@value IN (1,2) AND (@something = '""' OR contains(column1, @something)))
 OR @value NOT IN (1,2)