Re: SQL CASE Statement

From: Boris Dali <boris_dali_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:59:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DB37B.20031229165925@fatcity.com>

Version?

select case when substr(banner, instr(banner, 'Release')+length('Release')+1, 1) < 9 then

   'tough luck. sql and pl/sql parsers are different'    else 'check the syntax' end
from v$version where banner like 'Oracle%';

Thanks,
Boris Dali.

• "Pillai, Rajesh" <Rajesh.Pillai_at_nordstrom.com> wrote: > Hi All,
  > Any clues on why does a CASE block does not work in
  > an INSERT-APPEND-SELECT statement called in a sql
  > block in an UNIX script? If I replace the case block
  > with a decode function then it works!!!! Whereas in
  > a sql command prompt, both DECODE and CASE yields
  > results.
  >
  > TIA for all ur hints.
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Rajesh
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