Is there an exclusive OR operator in T-SQL?

Question

This is my statement

IF (@UserName IS NULL AND @EditorKey IS NULL) OR (@UserName IS NOT NULL AND @EditorKey IS NOT NULL) BEGIN
    RAISERROR (\'One of @UserName,         


        

Answer 1

Not very succinct, but you could expand out the logic like this:

WHERE
    (NOT ((@UserName IS NOT NULL) AND (@EditorKey IS NOT NULL))) AND
    ((@UserName IS NOT NULL) OR (@EditorKey IS NOT NULL))

Or use the bitwise XOR operator (^):

WHERE
    (CASE WHEN (@UserName IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) ^
    (CASE WHEN (@EditorKey IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) = 1

You can use a similar approach where there are three or four parameters, and exactly one must have a value:

WHERE
    (CASE WHEN (@Var1 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
    (CASE WHEN (@Var2 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
    (CASE WHEN (@Var3 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
    (CASE WHEN (@Var4 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) = 1