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Asked: 2026-05-19T09:33:11+00:00

I know this question has been asked and debated before. The answers I have

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I know this question has been asked and debated before. The answers I have read are mostly opinion, so I am looking for something more technical. More “under the hood”.

I’m using SQL Server 2008. I am about to write a query that will need to accept at least 11 inputs. The user could specify 1 to 11(+) of these. They are of various types (IDs, text matching, geography, full text matches, record sets, etc.). It’s as dynamic as you can get with SQL.

I know how to do this without using dynamic SQL:

/*for simple match*/ WHERE @Input IS NOT NULL OR t.col = @Input

This has drawbacks because of joins etc. I don’t ever use dynamic SQL. But from what I’ve read, it seems this may be a case for dynamic SQL.

Can anyone give some technical pointers please?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://www.sommarskog.se/index.html

    Look at the curse and blessing of Dynamic SQl and the Dynamic Search Conditions links

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