September 23, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Hi all
am trying to write a case statement an that currently returns one column. Is there any way that it could return multiple columns.
for e.g.
case when <condition> then (Select substring(column, 1, 3)) as Col1, (Select substring(column, 4, 2)) as Col2
else '' end
Can some one please help. It feels like it's not possible unless I write multiple case statements, but just wanted to check.
Thanks
vani
September 24, 2013 at 8:08 am
vani_r14 (9/23/2013)
Hi allam trying to write a case statement an that currently returns one column. Is there any way that it could return multiple columns.
for e.g.
case when <condition> then (Select substring(column, 1, 3)) as Col1, (Select substring(column, 4, 2)) as Col2else '' end
Can some one please help. It feels like it's not possible unless I write multiple case statements, but just wanted to check.
Thanks
vani
No you can't do that. A case expression is used to help decide the value for a column. Also you don't need subselects inside like that.
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September 25, 2013 at 12:23 am
Thank you Sean. I thought so. 🙂
Cheers
Vani
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