Re: [SQL] sql can i substitute

2004-12-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 18:22:48 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 06:12 pm, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > An alternative to Andreas' suggestion would be to create a simple lookup > > table and join them. This is good if the real life example can g

Re: [SQL] sql can i substitute

2004-12-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 16:55:45 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > table: > > name varchar(10) > fruit integer > > i want to write an sql statement like this: > > select fruit from table > > which should return 'good' if fruit = 1 and 'bad' if fruit =2 and 'rotten'

Re: [SQL] sql can i substitute

2004-12-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 17 December 2004 06:12 pm, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > An alternative to Andreas' suggestion would be to create a simple lookup > table and join them. This is good if the real life example can get > larger and/or the list can change and you don't want to modify code > every time it does.

Re: [SQL] sql can i substitute

2004-12-17 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:55:45 +0530 Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to write an sql statement like this: > > select fruit from table > > which should return 'good' if fruit = 1 and 'bad' if fruit =2 and > 'rotten' if fruit =3 An alternative to Andreas' suggestion would be to