Put the other fields after the CASE statement:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system) > 65
THEN
CONCAT(LEFT(system, 60), " ...")
ELSE
system
END,
wsh_year,
id
FROM wsh
The CASE statement just returns 1 field.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Forgo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:21 PM
To: 'MySQL Mailing List'
Subject: case expression
Hello all ... be gentle, I'm new at this:
I've got a simple case query. One works (the top one), but when I try
to add additional columns to the query it fails. I reckon it's a pretty
simple mistake I'm making, but I don't know what. Any help is
appreciated.
-----------------------------------------------------
This works ...
SELECT CASE WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system) > 65 then
CONCAT(LEFT(system, 60), " ...")
ELSE
system END
------------------------------------------------------
This doesn't ...
SELECT CASE WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system) > 65 then
CONCAT(LEFT(system, 60), " ..."), wsh_year, id
ELSE
system, wsh_year, id END
FROM wsh
Maybe an IF statement would work better here?
Rik Forgo
JIST3
Army Test, Training and Technology Integration Office (T3I)
Diverse Technologies Corp.
(c) 443.463.8571
(h) 410.859.8474
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