November 14, 2012 at 10:33 am
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MCSE SQL Server 2012\2014\2016
November 14, 2012 at 11:35 am
worker bee (11/14/2012)
Okay, I have a CASE stmt that is in the SELECT clause. I basically want to get rid of the CASE stmt and place the information in the where clause. I have done this but I get two of everything in my results. Please help!--OLD
SELECT DISTINCT
CASE a.COL1
WHEN '26' THEN b.COLB
END AS OUTPUT1,
CASE a.COL1
WHEN '27' THEN b.COL2
END AS OUTPUT2
FROM
TBL1 a, TBL2 b
WHERE
a.COL1 = b.COL1 and
a.COL2 = b.COL2 and
a.COL1 > 1
--NEW
SELECT DISTINCT
b.COL2 AS OUTPUT1
b.COL2 AS OUTPUT2
FROM
TBL1 a, TBL2 b
a.COL1 = b.COL1 and
a.COL2 = b.COL2 and
a.COL1 > 1 AND
b.COL2 IN ('26', '27')
Remember that we can't see your screen from here and we don't know what your tables or data look like. That being said those two queries are not doing anywhere near the same thing. Why do you think you need to move this to the where clause?
I would recommend you use the newer ANSI style of join instead of the old style. They will produce the same result but is less error prone and more legible. Your first query would become something like this:
SELECT DISTINCT
CASE a.COL1 WHEN '26' THEN b.COLB END AS OUTPUT1
,CASE a.COL1 WHEN '27' THEN b.COL2 END AS OUTPUT2
FROM TBL1 a
inner join TBL2 b on a.COL1 = b.COL1 AND a.COL2 = b.COL2
where a.COL1 > 1
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November 14, 2012 at 12:01 pm
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November 14, 2012 at 12:21 pm
worker bee (11/14/2012)
I updated with no results that are different. I still get two rows, 26 is the TAXABLE, TAX-DEF and the other is 27 SOLE, JOINT, OTHER. I had tried this before. Here is the query and the results;select distinct
CASE aor.optional_category_cd
WHEN '26' THEN aoc.optional_class_nm
END AS AccountType,
CASE aor.optional_category_cd
WHEN '27' THEN aoc.optional_class_nm
END AS AccountType
from
ACCOUNT_OPT_REF aor inner join ACCOUNT_OPT_CLASS aoc ON aor.Optional_Category_Cd = aoc.Optional_Category_Cd and
aor.Optional_Class_Cd = aoc.Optional_Class_Cd
where
aor.Optional_Class_Cd > 1
AccountType AccountType
TAXABLE NULL
NULL SOLE
TAX-DEFERRED/NOT TAX ON WDRAWL NULL
NULL JOINT
TAX-DEFERRED & TAX ON WDRAWL NULL
NULL OTHER
NULL NULL
As I said before I can't see your screen, I have no idea what your ddl is like, I have no sample data to work with and I have no idea what you want as output. Please see the first article in my signature about best practices when posting questions.
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November 19, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Using case statement is the best option in your scenario..you said that you always get more result? you should check your grouping maybe that was the problem.
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