Lundquist, Jason wrote:

> I'm looking for advice porting stored procedures from a MS SQL database to
SAPDB. 
> 
> In T-SQL I used a stored procedure like the example below for a user
search form: 
> 
> SELECT * FROM table 
> WHERE COALESCE(column1, '') LIKE COALESCE(@variable1, '') + '%'  
> AND COALESCE(column2,'') LIKE COALESCE(@variable2, '') + '%' 
> AND COALESCE(column3, '') LIKE COALESCE(@variable3, '') + '%' 
> ... 
> 
> Can I do this in a DBPROC in SAPDB? 

A SELECT is possible in a dbproc, no problem.

But COALESCE has to be changed to VALUE,
+ '%' has to be changed to || '%' and
@variable has to be changed to :variable

see reference manual --> basis elements --> functions  and
      reference manual --> data definition --> create dbproc statement

Elke
SAP Labs Berlin

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