On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:35:22AM -0600, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: > The number of lines depends merely on where you place your line breaks. > > IF(days_complete <= 120, job_price, 0)AS Days_120 > > could be written as: > > CASE WHEN days_complete <= 120 THEN job_price ELSE 0 END AS Days_120 > > There might be somewhat less syntactic sugar, but this is not a five > line expression and, to me, is more readable than a comma-delimited > list where position alone indicates function in the expression.
CASE is also standard SQL, whereas IF isn't (unless I've overlooked it in the SQL:2003 draft). -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
