Question

I have a problem with SQL that I have not yet found a solution to, what im trying to do is a where clause for a procedure where a userID variable can contain either a valid userID or -1 to indicate all users.

However im stuck at this part of the where clause:

AND usertable.userid = CASE WHEN @user = -1
THEN

ELSE
  @user
END

I’m not sure how to process the -1 to say select all users

Thanks

Answer 1

Perhaps the following would work:

SELECT whatever
  FROM wherever
  WHERE something = somethingelse AND
        usertable.userid = CASE @user
                             WHEN -1 THEN usertable.userid
                             ELSE @user
                           END

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