Look up the DECODE command.
SELECT decode(substr(acct_no,16,1),'1',one,'2','two','other') FROM ....
should look like that
Alec Macdonell
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Harry
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:39 PM
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Listers:
I've used SAS's version of SQL and it allows the coding of conditional logic
in the SELECT statement:
proc sql;
select acct_no,
case substr(acct_no,16,1)
when '1' then 'one'
when '2' then 'two'
else 'other'
end as desc
from star.kills;
quit;
The same syntax does not work in SQL*Plus for Oracle 8. Can someone point
me to the correct syntax?
Secondly, any URLs for this kind of information would be most appreciated.
Regards,
Harry
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