On 1/28/2016 1:14 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Hal.sz S.ndor <h...@tbbs.net> wrote:
2016/01/25 19:16 ... Larry Martell:
SELECT IFNULL(f_tag_bottom,
IFNULL(f_tag_bottom_major_axis,
IFNULL(f_tag_bottom_minor_axis,
IFNULL(f_tag_ch_x_bottom,
IFNULL(f_tag_ch_y_bottom, NULL))))) as ftag,
STDDEV(ch_x_top)
....
Of course, this isn't your real problem, but you could use COALESCE instead
of all those IFNULLs (and you don't need the last one):
SELECT COALESCE(f_tag_bottom, f_tag_bottom_major_axis,
f_tag_bottom_minor_axis, f_tag_ch_x_bottom, f_tag_ch_y_bottom) as ftag,
STDDEV(ch_x_top)
....
As Johnny Withers points out, you may repeat the expression in the
WHERE-clause:
WHERE COALESCE(f_tag_bottom, f_tag_bottom_major_axis,
f_tag_bottom_minor_axis, f_tag_ch_x_bottom, f_tag_ch_y_bottom) = 'E-CD7'
If really only one of those is not NULL, it is equivalent to this:
'E-CD7' IN (f_tag_bottom, f_tag_bottom_major_axis,
f_tag_bottom_minor_axis, f_tag_ch_x_bottom, f_tag_ch_y_bottom)
Many thanks to Hal.sz and Johnny - I had forgotten about coalesce and
I didn't know I could use that in a where clause. This worked great
for the requirement I had, but of course, once that was implemented my
client changed the requirements. Now they want to know which of the 5
f_tag_* columns was matched. Not sure how I'll do that. Probably need
another query.
One option to consider is to add another column to the query with a CASE
similar to this...
SELECT
, ... original fields ...
, CASE
WHEN f_tag_bottom THEN 'f_tag_bottom'
WHEN f_tag_bottom_major_axis THEN 'f_tag_bottom_major_axis'
... repeat for the rest of the fields to test ...
ELSE 'none'
END as match_flag
FROM ...
Technically, the term in the WHERE clause should prevent a 'none' result
but I put it there to help future-proof the code.
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