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Old May 6th, 2009, 08:22 PM
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Thanks Old Pedant. Thanks Jeff. Very much appreciated.

I see I was restating the CASE when I didn't need to.

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Old May 7th, 2009, 03:32 PM
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Gut feeling is that SQL Server is probably smart enough to optimize either form into the same code. But maybe not. SQL Server has surprised me before by not optimizing some pretty obvious things.





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