You are lucky! My sinuses are getting better. Decode is
a function which is to be called within a SQL statement,
not the other way round. What do you translate a "CASE"
statement into? That's elementary, my dear Hrishy: a sequence
of "if ... then ... else ... end if" commands.
On 2003.07.12 00:39, hrishy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am in urgent need of backporting oracle9i pl/sql to
> oracle8i.I have encountered some case satements like
> this
>
> CASE
> when x>0 then (select y from deptno)
> else
> (select Z from emp)
> end
>
> i need to convert them to decode statements.Can
> anybody tell me how to write a select statement within
> decode.
>
> regards
> Hrishy
>
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