SQL Performance-wise, what's better: an IF…ELSE clause, or WHERE LIKE clause?

SQL Server 2005 and subsequent have something called "statement-level recompilation". Check out http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/recomp.mspx.

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