Dynamic where clause in Database Adapter, or workaround?

Hello friends,
Is there any way to change where clause in Database Adapter (DA) dynamically.
For e.g. i do have Database Adapter with sql statement: select col1,col2 from my_table. Originally i have many parameters which are not mandatory so instead of creating where clause in DA like:
select col1, col2 from my_table where+
*((#p_col_1 is not null and #p_col_1=col1) or #p_col_1 is null)*
and ...
and ((#p_col_n is not null and #p_col_n=col_n) or #p_col_n is null)
i would like to create a where clause dynamically depend on what parameters are not empty or receive where clause as parameter. Is it possible? Are there any others workarounds you can suggest?
will appreciate any thoughts...

Thanks Deepa for the links, their where quite helpful. And i must admit this partially answers my question (at least example i provided).
However - how about if i'd like to use LIKE clauses instead of =, or IN or NOT IN? e.g:
select col1, col2 from my_table where+
((#p_col_1 is not null and #p_col_1 LIKE col1) or #p_col_1 is null)
and ...
and ((#p_col_n is not null and col_n IN #p_col_n) or #p_col_n is null)
Is it possible?
thanks in advance

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Dynamic where clause in database adapter

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My BPEL process is getting search spec as input from siebel. I need to process this searchspec in BPEL and need to build the SQL query dynamically at Database Adapter to fetch the records from DB.
it goes like this....
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Chandra

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