Dynamic order direction

Question

I writing a SP that accepts as parameters column to sort and direction.

I don't want to use dynamic SQL.

The problem is with setting the direction parameter.

This is the partial code:

SET @OrderByColumn = 'AddedDate'
SET @OrderDirection = 1;

…

ORDER BY 
    CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedDate' THEN CONVERT(varchar(50), AddedDate)
        WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Visible' THEN CONVERT(varchar(2), Visible)
        WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedBy' THEN AddedBy
        WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Title' THEN Title    
    END

Answer 1

You could have two near-identical ORDER BY items, one ASC and one DESC, and extend your CASE statement to make one or other of them always equal a single value:

ORDER BY
      CASE WHEN @OrderDirection = 0 THEN 1
      ELSE
           CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedDate' THEN CONVERT(varchar(50), AddedDate)
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Visible' THEN CONVERT(varchar(2), Visible)
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedBy' THEN AddedBy
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Title' THEN Title
           END
      END ASC,
      CASE WHEN @OrderDirection = 1 THEN 1
      ELSE
           CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedDate' THEN CONVERT(varchar(50), AddedDate)
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Visible' THEN CONVERT(varchar(2), Visible)
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'AddedBy' THEN AddedBy           
                WHEN @OrderByColumn = 'Title' THEN Title
           END
      END DESC