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Flow Control

Explore how to apply flow control in T-SQL by using IF ELSE constructs, including nested statements and the EXISTS operator. Understand how to execute conditional logic within queries to create more dynamic and responsive database operations.

T-SQL can be considered a programming language because we can add conditional logic to our T-SQL queries. In other words, T-SQL supports the IFELSE construct, like the majority of procedural programming languages.

Syntax

The IFELSE construct has this syntax in T-SQL:

IF [Condition]
BEGIN
    [Actions to perform if the condition is true]
END
ELSE
BEGIN
    [Actions to per
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