Re: **[SPAM]** Conditional statement: IF

2004-10-22 Thread SGreen
T-SQL style procedural scripting will not be initially available outside of stored procedures. Stored procedures are new to 5.0 (still under development) so what you want to code is not available, yet. You will have to make program branch choices in a programming language as the SQL engine cur

Re: **[SPAM]** Conditional statement: IF

2004-10-22 Thread Luke Venediger
Hi, Apologies, yes I have RTFM, and should've clarified my question. I actually need to do something more like this: IF(@SomeValue = 1) BEGIN THEN SELECT "Data" as Column1, "MoreData" as Column2 ELSE SELECT "SomeValue is not = 1" as Error END IF Thanks, Luke Venediger. On

RE: **[SPAM]** Conditional statement: IF

2004-10-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm trying to write a conditional statement in my query. Is the following possible in MySQL? IF(@SomeValue = 1) THEN SELECT "The value is 1"; ELSE SELECT "The value is not 1"; END IF I've tried different variations and nothing seems to be working (I'm getting syntax errors). I'm using My