On 27 Dec 2002, at 1:04, Peter D Bethke wrote:
> My table "matchups" has columns for team1_id, team2_id, team1_score and
> team2_score.
>
> I can write a simple calculation using the api I use (Lasso - similar in
> function to php) and display the results programmatically in the html
> output, not involving MySQL, but I wonder if I can use a function, or
> something similar to get a new column "winner".
Something like this query maybe?
SELECT team1_id, team2_id, team1_score, team2_score, CASE WHEN
team1_score > team2_score THEN team1_id WHEN team1_score <
team2_score THEN team2_id ELSE NULL END AS winner
FROM matchups WHERE ...
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Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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http://tobaccodocuments.org
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