Question

If you have a query that is like so is there a better approach? Is there an alternate way to handle all of the “OR” statements? Just trying to figureout a way to get rid of all of the “ORs”

Version: SQL Server 2008 R2

Select ProductID
From product.Products
Where 
(Attribute1 <> 0
or Attribute2 <> 0
or Attribute3 <> 0
or Attribute4 <> 0
or Attribute5 <> 0
or Attribute6 <> 0
or Attribute7 <> 0
or Attribute8 <> 0
)
AND
(CatAttrib1 <> 0
or CatAttrib2 <> 0
or CatAttrib3 <> 0
)

Answer 1

You could create a view, such as (assuming Attribute columns are INT-based, not BIT):

CREATE VIEW product.ViewProducts
AS
    SELECT Attribute1, Attribute2, ...
       Attributes = CASE 
            WHEN Attribute1 + Attribute2 + Attribute3 ... > 0 
            THEN 1 ELSE 0 END,
       CatAttrib1, CatAttrib2, ..., 
       CatAttribs = CASE
            WHEN CatAttrib1 + CatAttrib2 + CatAttrib3 ... > 0
            THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
    FROM product.Products;
GO

Now you can say:

SELECT ProductID
  FROM product.Products
  WHERE Attributes = 1
  AND CatAttribs = 1;