Handling a generic select statement

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Need a universal statement which can perform this

MASTER
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IDNO NAME GENDER EDUCATION
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001 JAMES MALE HIGH SCHOOL
002 JOHN MALE UNIVERSITY
003 AMY FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL
004 PAT FEMALE UNIVERSITY
005 ANN FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL

GENDER can be 'ALL/MALE/FEMALE'

EDUCATION can be 'ALL/HIGH SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY'

Need a general purpose Select statement as follows

Select * from MASTER WHERE GENDER='' AND EDUCATION=''

How do you handle a generIc Select statement to handle

'ALL' for GENDER in addition to 'MALE/FEMALE'

'ALL' for EDUCATION in addition to 'HIGH SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY'

Please assist

What I have tried:

This is what I have tried . please assit

Posted 12-Oct-17 5:09am

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Updated 12-Oct-17 5:33am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2017-10-12T05:33:00

For generic statements where you want "any of them", just exclude it from the WHERE clause:

SQL

SELECT * FROM Master WHERE Education='UNIVERSITY'

Will return any gender. Similarly,

SQL

SELECT * FROM Master WHERE Gender='MALE'

Will return any education status.

But that's a very poor DB design: there is a huge amount of duplication. You shoudlk consider setting up separate Gender and Education tables:
Gender

Id     INT, IDENTITY, PRIMARY KEY
Desc   NVARCHAR

Education

Id     INT, IDENTITY, PRIMARY KEY
Desc   NVARCHAR

You then use a foreign key to each ID field in your main table instead of storing the description so many times, and use JOINs to "combine" the tabels for output as necessary.