So I have an sql query i am currently working on that is like this:
SELECT * from tableA where
( status = NVL('','OPEN') or status = NVL('','CLOSED') )
and delete_flag != 'Y'
The above query works fine and gives me the result I want.. but I was wondering if there is anyway I can combine the above status IN NVL line to one instead of using the or there.
for example, I want to be able to do:
SELECT * from tableA where
status IN NVL('','OPEN','CLOSED')
and delete_flag != 'Y'
But the apostrophes are not working with me here.. how can I work around it?
You are getting an input parameter from your application that can have the values "Open", "Closed" or null
You want to be able to select status values that equal this input paremeter if it is null or the value of the input if it isn't.
To have null for a filter default to all you use COALESCE and the column you are filtering on.
Like this
SELECT * from tableA
where COALESCE(parameter,status) = status
and status in ('OPEN','CLOSED') -- see comments
and delete_flag != 'Y'
In this case if parameter is OPEN you will get all OPEN items, if parameter is CLOSED you will get all closed items and if it is null you will get all items.
This is a very common pattern in web applications.
Single line version
SELECT * from tableA
where COALESCE(parameter,CASE WHEN status in ('OPEN','CLOSED') then status ELSE '' END) = status
and delete_flag != 'Y'
simply:
SELECT * from tableA
where 1=1
and nvl(status, '---') IN ('OPEN','CLOSED')
and delete_flag != 'Y'
In Oracle an empty string '' is equivalent to NULL.
So NVL( '', 'OPEN' ) is the equivalent to NVL( NULL, 'OPEN' ) which can be simplified to just 'OPEN'.
So your query is:
SELECT *
FROM tableA
WHERE ( status = 'OPEN' OR status = 'CLOSED' )
AND delete_flag != 'Y'
Which can be simplified to:
SELECT *
FROM tableA
WHERE status IN ( 'OPEN', 'CLOSED' )
AND delete_flag != 'Y'
You can implement a dynamic list of options using a collection:
CREATE TYPE stringlist IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(100);
/
SELECT a.*
FROM tableA a
INNER JOIN
( SELECT stringlist( 'OPEN', 'CLOSED' ) AS options FROM DUAL ) o
ON ( o.options IS EMPTY OR a.status MEMBER OF o.options )
WHERE a.delete_flag <> 'Y'
How do I perform an IF...THEN in an SQL SELECT statement?
For example:
SELECT IF(Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y' ? 1 : 0) AS Saleable, * FROM Product
The CASE statement is the closest to IF in SQL and is supported on all versions of SQL Server.
SELECT CAST(
CASE
WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS bit) as Saleable, *
FROM Product
You only need to use the CAST operator if you want the result as a Boolean value. If you are happy with an int, this works:
SELECT CASE
WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END as Saleable, *
FROM Product
CASE statements can be embedded in other CASE statements and even included in aggregates.
SQL Server Denali (SQL Server 2012) adds the IIF statement which is also available in access (pointed out by Martin Smith):
SELECT IIF(Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y', 1, 0) as Saleable, * FROM Product
The case statement is your friend in this situation, and takes one of two forms:
The simple case:
SELECT CASE <variable> WHEN <value> THEN <returnvalue>
WHEN <othervalue> THEN <returnthis>
ELSE <returndefaultcase>
END AS <newcolumnname>
FROM <table>
The extended case:
SELECT CASE WHEN <test> THEN <returnvalue>
WHEN <othertest> THEN <returnthis>
ELSE <returndefaultcase>
END AS <newcolumnname>
FROM <table>
You can even put case statements in an order by clause for really fancy ordering.
From SQL Server 2012 you can use the IIF function for this.
SELECT IIF(Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y', 1, 0) AS Salable, *
FROM Product
This is effectively just a shorthand (albeit not standard SQL) way of writing CASE.
I prefer the conciseness when compared with the expanded CASE version.
Both IIF() and CASE resolve as expressions within a SQL statement and can only be used in well-defined places.
The CASE expression cannot be used to control the flow of execution of
Transact-SQL statements, statement blocks, user-defined functions, and
stored procedures.
If your needs can not be satisfied by these limitations (for example, a need to return differently shaped result sets dependent on some condition) then SQL Server does also have a procedural IF keyword.
IF #IncludeExtendedInformation = 1
BEGIN
SELECT A,B,C,X,Y,Z
FROM T
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT A,B,C
FROM T
END
Care must sometimes be taken to avoid parameter sniffing issues with this approach however.
You can find some nice examples in The Power of SQL CASE Statements, and I think the statement that you can use will be something like this (from 4guysfromrolla):
SELECT
FirstName, LastName,
Salary, DOB,
CASE Gender
WHEN 'M' THEN 'Male'
WHEN 'F' THEN 'Female'
END
FROM Employees
Use CASE. Something like this.
SELECT Salable =
CASE Obsolete
WHEN 'N' THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
SELECT
(CASE
WHEN (Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y') THEN 'YES'
ELSE 'NO'
END) as Salable
, *
FROM Product
Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL)
In a select, use:
select case when Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y' then 'YES' else 'NO' end
In a where clause, use:
where 1 = case when Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y' then 1 else 0 end
From this link, we can understand IF THEN ELSE in T-SQL:
IF EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM Northwind.dbo.Customers
WHERE CustomerId = 'ALFKI')
PRINT 'Need to update Customer Record ALFKI'
ELSE
PRINT 'Need to add Customer Record ALFKI'
IF EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM Northwind.dbo.Customers
WHERE CustomerId = 'LARSE')
PRINT 'Need to update Customer Record LARSE'
ELSE
PRINT 'Need to add Customer Record LARSE'
Isn't this good enough for T-SQL?
SELECT
CASE
WHEN OBSOLETE = 'N' or InStock = 'Y' THEN 'TRUE'
ELSE 'FALSE'
END AS Salable,
*
FROM PRODUCT
Simple if-else statement in SQL Server:
DECLARE #val INT;
SET #val = 15;
IF #val < 25
PRINT 'Hi Ravi Anand';
ELSE
PRINT 'By Ravi Anand.';
GO
Nested If...else statement in SQL Server -
DECLARE #val INT;
SET #val = 15;
IF #val < 25
PRINT 'Hi Ravi Anand.';
ELSE
BEGIN
IF #val < 50
PRINT 'what''s up?';
ELSE
PRINT 'Bye Ravi Anand.';
END;
GO
Use a CASE statement:
SELECT CASE
WHEN (Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y')
THEN 'Y'
ELSE 'N'
END as Available
etc...
A new feature, IIF (that we can simply use), was added in SQL Server 2012:
SELECT IIF ( (Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y'), 1, 0) AS Saleable, * FROM Product
Use pure bit logic:
DECLARE #Product TABLE (
id INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY NOT NULL
,Obsolote CHAR(1)
,Instock CHAR(1)
)
INSERT INTO #Product ([Obsolote], [Instock])
VALUES ('N', 'N'), ('N', 'Y'), ('Y', 'Y'), ('Y', 'N')
;
WITH cte
AS
(
SELECT
'CheckIfInstock' = CAST(ISNULL(NULLIF(ISNULL(NULLIF(p.[Instock], 'Y'), 1), 'N'), 0) AS BIT)
,'CheckIfObsolote' = CAST(ISNULL(NULLIF(ISNULL(NULLIF(p.[Obsolote], 'N'), 0), 'Y'), 1) AS BIT)
,*
FROM
#Product AS p
)
SELECT
'Salable' = c.[CheckIfInstock] & ~c.[CheckIfObsolote]
,*
FROM
[cte] c
See working demo: if then without case in SQL Server.
For start, you need to work out the value of true and false for selected conditions. Here comes two NULLIF:
for true: ISNULL(NULLIF(p.[Instock], 'Y'), 1)
for false: ISNULL(NULLIF(p.[Instock], 'N'), 0)
combined together gives 1 or 0. Next use bitwise operators.
It's the most WYSIWYG method.
SELECT 1 AS Saleable, *
FROM #Product
WHERE ( Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y' )
UNION
SELECT 0 AS Saleable, *
FROM #Product
WHERE NOT ( Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y' )
SELECT CASE WHEN profile.nrefillno = 0 THEN 'N' ELSE 'R'END as newref
From profile
case statement some what similar to if in SQL server
SELECT CASE
WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END as Saleable, *
FROM Product
This isn't an answer, just an example of a CASE statement in use where I work. It has a nested CASE statement. Now you know why my eyes are crossed.
CASE orweb2.dbo.Inventory.RegulatingAgencyName
WHEN 'Region 1'
THEN orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactState
WHEN 'Region 2'
THEN orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactState
WHEN 'Region 3'
THEN orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactState
WHEN 'DEPT OF AGRICULTURE'
THEN orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactAg
ELSE (
CASE orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.IsContract
WHEN 1
THEN orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactCounty
ELSE orweb2.dbo.CountyStateAgContactInfo.ContactState
END
)
END AS [County Contact Name]
If you're inserting results into a table for the first time, rather than transferring results from one table to another, this works in Oracle 11.2g:
INSERT INTO customers (last_name, first_name, city)
SELECT 'Doe', 'John', 'Chicago' FROM dual
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT '1' from customers
where last_name = 'Doe'
and first_name = 'John'
and city = 'Chicago');
As an alternative solution to the CASE statement, a table-driven approach can be used:
DECLARE #Product TABLE (ID INT, Obsolete VARCHAR(10), InStock VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO #Product VALUES
(1,'N','Y'),
(2,'A','B'),
(3,'N','B'),
(4,'A','Y')
SELECT P.* , ISNULL(Stmt.Saleable,0) Saleable
FROM
#Product P
LEFT JOIN
( VALUES
( 'N', 'Y', 1 )
) Stmt (Obsolete, InStock, Saleable)
ON P.InStock = Stmt.InStock OR P.Obsolete = Stmt.Obsolete
Result:
ID Obsolete InStock Saleable
----------- ---------- ---------- -----------
1 N Y 1
2 A B 0
3 N B 1
4 A Y 1
SELECT CASE WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y' THEN 1 ELSE 0
END AS Saleable, *
FROM Product
You can have two choices for this to actually implement:
Using IIF, which got introduced from SQL Server 2012:
SELECT IIF ( (Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y'), 1, 0) AS Saleable, * FROM Product
Using Select Case:
SELECT CASE
WHEN Obsolete = 'N' or InStock = 'Y'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END as Saleable, *
FROM Product
Using SQL CASE is just like normal If / Else statements.
In the below query, if obsolete value = 'N' or if InStock value = 'Y' then the output will be 1. Otherwise the output will be 0.
Then we put that 0 or 1 value under the Salable Column.
SELECT
CASE
WHEN obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS Salable
, *
FROM PRODUCT
Question:
SELECT IF(Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y' ? 1 : 0) AS Saleable, * FROM Product
ANSI:
Select
case when p.Obsolete = 'N'
or p.InStock = 'Y' then 1 else 0 end as Saleable,
p.*
FROM
Product p;
Using aliases -- p in this case -- will help prevent issues.
SELECT
if((obsolete = 'N' OR instock = 'Y'), 1, 0) AS saleable, *
FROM
product;
For those who uses SQL Server 2012, IIF is a feature that has been added and works as an alternative to Case statements.
SELECT IIF(Obsolete = 'N' OR InStock = 'Y', 1, 0) AS Salable, *
FROM Product
It will be something like that:
SELECT OrderID, Quantity,
CASE
WHEN Quantity > 30 THEN "The quantity is greater than 30"
WHEN Quantity = 30 THEN "The quantity is 30"
ELSE "The quantity is under 30"
END AS QuantityText
FROM OrderDetails;
I like the use of the CASE statements, but the question asked for an IF statement in the SQL Select. What I've used in the past has been:
SELECT
if(GENDER = "M","Male","Female") as Gender
FROM ...
It's like the Excel or sheets IF statements where there is a conditional followed by the true condition and then the false condition:
if(condition, true, false)
Furthermore, you can nest the if statements (but then use should use a CASE :-)
(Note: this works in MySQL Workbench, but it may not work on other platforms)
For the sake of completeness, I would add that SQL uses three-valued logic. The expression:
obsolete = 'N' OR instock = 'Y'
Could produce three distinct results:
| obsolete | instock | saleable |
|----------|---------|----------|
| Y | Y | true |
| Y | N | false |
| Y | null | null |
| N | Y | true |
| N | N | true |
| N | null | true |
| null | Y | true |
| null | N | null |
| null | null | null |
So for example if a product is obsolete but you dont know if product is instock then you dont know if product is saleable. You can write this three-valued logic as follows:
SELECT CASE
WHEN obsolete = 'N' OR instock = 'Y' THEN 'true'
WHEN NOT (obsolete = 'N' OR instock = 'Y') THEN 'false'
ELSE NULL
END AS saleable
Once you figure out how it works, you can convert three results to two results by deciding the behavior of null. E.g. this would treat null as not saleable:
SELECT CASE
WHEN obsolete = 'N' OR instock = 'Y' THEN 'true'
ELSE 'false' -- either false or null
END AS saleable
There are multiple conditions.
SELECT
(CASE
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1001' THEN 'DM'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1002' THEN 'GS'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1003' THEN 'MB'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1004' THEN 'MP'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1005' THEN 'PL'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1008' THEN 'DM-27'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1011' THEN 'PB'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1012' THEN 'UT-2'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1013' THEN 'JGC'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1014' THEN 'SB'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1015' THEN 'IR'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1016' THEN 'UT-3'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1017' THEN 'UT-4'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1019' THEN 'KR'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1020' THEN 'SYB-SB'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1021' THEN 'GR'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1022' THEN 'SYB-KP'
WHEN RIGHT((LEFT(POSID,5)),4) LIKE '1026' THEN 'BNS'
ELSE ''
END) AS OUTLET
FROM matrixcrm.Transact