How can I do the following in SQL Server
DECLARE @Local nvarchar(20)
SET @Local = 'True'
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN
(IF @Local = 'True'
SELECT AllIDs FROM ATable
ELSE
SELECT TeamIDs FROM TeamTable
)
Go for a union :-
SELECT * FROM My_Table WHERE my_id IN
(
SELECT AllIDs AS MyIDs FROM ATable WHERE @Local = 'True'
UNION
SELECT TeamIDs AS MyIDs FROM TeamTable WHERE @Local <> 'True'
)
SELECT *
FROM mytable
WHERE my_id IN
(
SELECT allids
FROM atable
WHERE @Local = 'True'
)
UNION ALL
SELECT *
FROM mytable
WHERE my_id IN
(
SELECT teamids
FROM teamtable
WHERE COALESCE(@Local, '') <> 'True'
)
The optimizer will optimize away the wrong query, so the performance will as that of the corresponding (remaining) query.
DECLARE @Local nvarchar(20)
SET @Local = 'True'
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN (
SELECT AllIDs FROM ATable
WHERE @Local = 'True'
UNION ALL
SELECT TeamIDs FROM TeamTable
WHERE @Local != 'True'
)
Don't do this!
(at least not if you care about performance)
There is certainly a way of doing this, but you really shouldn't - the reason being that (in general) a single statement has only 1 execution plan, however you essentially have 2 (potentially very different) requests:
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN (SELECT AllIDs FROM ATable)
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN (SELECT AllIDs FROM TeamTable)
Combining these two queries means that SQL server is forced to try and optimise both of these at the same time using only 1 exectuion plan. Depending on how different the two tables are this might work fine, or it might go horrily horrily wrong.
For example, if ATable
contains only 1 row, while TeamTable
contains all of the ids in My_Table
then SQL server has to choose / compromise between doing a lookup (best if using ATable
) and a table scan (best if using TeamTable
) - whatever it ends up doing it's not possible for SQL server to execute both queries using the optimal execption plan (unless both execution plans happen to be the same).
You should use 2 statements instead:
DECLARE @Local nvarchar(20)
SET @Local = 'True'
IF @Local = 'True'
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN (SELECT AllIDs FROM ATable)
ELSE
SELECT * FROM My_Table
WHERE my_ID IN (SELECT AllIDs FROM TeamTable)
In fact in this particular case you might be better off selecting the list of ID's into a temporary table instead.