title: ELSE SELECT nothing/blank
body: <p>I need to have an 'ELSE' statement for every conditional statement in my stored procedures, how do I return make a procedure return nothing?</p>
  
  <pre><code>IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM Account WHERE Account.username=@Username)
  BEGIN
      SELECT Status 
      FROM   Account 
      WHERE Account.username=@Username
  END
  ELSE
  BEGIN
      SELECT --nothing/blank
  END
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>