How to remove the OR clause in this query?

Question

Hello Everyone,
I have this query where i have a lot of joins and in the where clause there is a ISNULL and conditions based on OR clause.
How to remove the use of the OR clause which may cause performance problems? Can anyone suggest a method to remove the OR clause?
select RS.PLANNEDSTART,
OD.ESTSHIPDATE
FROM TABLE1 RS(NOLOCK)
     INNER JOIN TABLE2 SS(NOLOCK)
     ON RS.ID1             = SS.ID1
     INNER JOIN TABLE3 AM(NOLOCK)
     ON AM.KEYID        = SS.KEYID
     INNER JOIN TABLE4 OD(NOLOCK)
     ON SS.KEYID= OD.KEYID
    INNER JOIN TABLE 8 DR
   ON
WHERE              (isnull(RS.DATE1,'1970-01-01 00:00:00.000') ='1970-01-01 00:00:00.000'
                 AND OD.DATE1 between @Beginning_Route_Date and @Ending_Route_Date)
             OR
             RS.DATE1!='1970-01-01 00:00:00.000'
               AND RS.DATE1 BETWEEN  @Beginning_Route_Date and @Ending_Route_Date)              
Regards
Gautam S
Gautam S

Answer 1

this is one way avoiding OR clause
WHERE CASE WHEN isnull(RS.DATE1,'1970-01-01 00:00:00.000') ='1970-01-01 00:00:00.000'
THEN OD.DATE1 ELSE RS.DATE1 END between @Beginning_Route_Date and @Ending_Route_Date)
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