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Combine CASE for Boolean (is NULL) and Expression

  • September 24, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    #395544

    Hi,

    I just thinking how to make my code more readable, I need to check C1 for is NULL and for nothing '', I learned that syntax is different

    For now I came up with nested CASE

    CASE when C1 is NULL then 'Alpha'

    else

    CASE C1 when '' then 'Bravo'

    C1 when 'c' then 'Charlie'

    else 'Whiskey'

    end

    end

    Is there any other way to make it more structural.

    Tx and Best

    Mario

  • September 24, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    #1652951

    Like this?

    CASE WHEN C1 IS NULL THEN 'Alpha'

    WHEN C1='' THEN 'Bravo'

    WHEN C1='c' THEN 'Charlie'

    ELSE 'Whiskey' END

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