I was wondering if anyone might have tried this before, because I can't seem to get it
to work. I'd like to be able to determine which unit of measure to concatenate to a
value by using a decode statement in the query. I have a column in the database that
stores time in minutes, and I'd like to be able to show the output in minutes if the
value is less than 60, but in hours (such as 3.27 hours) if the value is greater than
60. So far I've tried the following statement, but it seems to be blowing up on the
first comparison operator:
SELECT decode(in_value, to_char(to_number(in_value) <= to_number('60')),
to_char(in_value)||' minutes', to_char(to_number(in_value) > to_number('60')),
to_char(in_value/60, '9.99')||' hours')
FROM dual
/
I'm selecting from dual just until I can get the query working at all. Is what I'm
trying to do even possible? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
in advance.
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