without using reverse find the given string palindrome or no

Question

hai...

i trying to using REVERSE() find the given string palindrome or not

but i got answer without using REVERSE() fun find palindrome or not 

 

PLZ any one help me .

 

create procedure pal

@word varchar(50)

as

begin

if @word=REVERSE(@word)

print 'pal'

else

print 'not pal'

end

go

 

Thanks

Venkatesh D