Question

An easy one for anyone who knows. In TSQL Stored Procedures how do you write an if statement comparing the value of a bool. Being accustomed to C# too long I’m putting in curly braces, round braces and all sorts and I think I’m getting it wrong.

Answer 1

DECLARE @bool BIT = 1

IF @bool = 1
BEGIN
    -- do stuff here
    PRINT 'it was true';
END
ELSE
BEGIN
    -- do other stuff here
    PRINT 'it was not true';
END

If you’ve only got a single line inside the if then you don’t need the BEGIN and END, but it’s probably good practice to use them anyway.