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Assistance with stored procedure setting a blank variable to retrieve all

I have a stored procedure with variables being sent to it such as dates, facility, employees, which are used in the final SELECT statement (See snippet). Sometimes an Employee or Facility is not given, because we want to see all employees at a given Facility.

I have tried setting the value of the variable @Employee = '%' but it will not return all. How can I get it to show all if the value of this variable is left blank?

Thanks

ALTER   PROC [dbo].[spNC_BookingWizard]
	@StartDate varchar(10) = '1/1/1900',
	@EndDate varchar(10) = '1/1/2010',
	@Employee varchar(200) = '',
	@Facility varchar(200) = '',
	@Status varchar(200) = '',
	@test bit = 0
AS
 
SET NOCOUNT ON
 
DECLARE @dtStart datetime
DECLARE @dtEnd datetime
 
 
SET @dtStart = CONVERT(datetime, @StartDate)
SET @dtEnd = DATEADD(dd, 1, DATEADD(dd, 0, CONVERT(datetime, @EndDate)))
 
...........
 
SELECT * FROM #tmpBook 
WHERE StartDate_date >= @dtStart AND StartDate_date <= @dtEnd 
AND Facility = @Facility
AND EmpName = @Employee
AND  BookingStatus = @Status

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

if the column value is NULL, you would have to make the condition WHERE yourcol IS NULL.

for you, this syntax should work:

SELECT * FROM #tmpBook 
WHERE StartDate_date >= @dtStart AND StartDate_date <= @dtEnd 
AND ( Facility = @Facility OR @Facility = '%' )
AND ( EmpName = @Employee OR @Employee = '%' )
AND  BookingStatus = @Status

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Copied and pasted...worked perfect. Thanks