Re: SQL loval date/timestamp--(function in SQL to select avaluefrom a list)

Well, I don't know if we answered Joel's question
satisfactorily but I got two for the price of one! In fact I
have had occasion lately trying to remember one or the other
of both of these, (COALESCE and CASE), though the former was
a more direct hit on the specific question.

So thanks!

I've wracked my brain on how to get around your problem,
Joel, and can't think of anything. Thought if you had a way
to replace the system default date value with a null, you
could use that, but of course you couldn't use SQL.

- Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Gombkötö" <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: SQL loval date/timestamp--(function in SQL to
select avaluefrom a list)


| Hi,
|
| >> This reminds me of a pending question I've had that
might
| >> help. I've checked the manual, but can someone refresh
my
| >> mind on the SQL function that takes one value from a
list of
| >> two, where one is a database value, and the other is a
value
| >> to select in case the database value is null? (Or
something
| >> like that?)
|
| > I believe you're thinking of COALESCE:
|
| > select lastname, firstname,
coalesce(char(termination_date), 'ACTIVE') from
| > employees
|
| Sounds more like "CASE" for me; in this sample i'm setting
a field to
| be used in a HTML class="xxx" later on:
|
| SELECT  ...,
|         CASE
|         WHEN COENDT > COENDP THEN 'OVERDUE'
|         ELSE                      ''
|         END AS CLASSCOENDT,
|         CASE
|         WHEN SUM(CODBWR) >= SUM(CODBWP)
THEN 'OK'
|         WHEN SUM(CODBWR) > 0 AND SUM(CODBWR) < SUM(CODBWP)
THEN 'ATTN'
|         WHEN SUM(CODBWR) < 0
THEN 'ALERT'
|         ELSE
''
|         END AS CLASSCODB,
| ...
|
| 0.02 Euro
|
| best regards,
|
| Anton Gombkötö
|
|
|
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