Need help with a conditional SELECT statement

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Published on 2010-04-29T17:21:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 17:27 UTC
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I've got a stored procedure with a select statement, like this:

`SELECT  author_ID,
         author_name,
         author_bio
 FROM    Authors
 WHERE author_ID in (SELECT author_ID from Books) `

This limits results to authors who have book records. This is the Books table:

Books
book_ID INT
author_ID INT
book_title NVARCHAR
featured_book BIT

What I want to do is conditionally select the ID of the featured book by each author as part of the select statement above, and if none of the books for a given author are featured, select the ID of the first (top 1) book by the author from the books table. How do I approach this?

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