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Old January 4th, 2005, 04:28 PM
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Pass a parameter for sort order

Is there a way to pass a parameter into a stored procedure to set the sort order.

I have tried things like

ORDER by EmployeeID @direction

where @direction is a varchar with a value of 'desc' and I get an error.

I do not want to dynamically create the sql and use sp_executesql.
I have already done it this was but I am looking for a better solution.

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Old January 5th, 2005, 03:44 AM
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order by case when @direction = 'asc' then Employeeid end ,
case when @direction = 'desc' then Employeeid end desc

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