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Hi Folks,
Just a quickie - can wildcards be used in CASE statements? I have inherited some code and wondered if this:
could be replaced with this:
Thanks
L3K
Just a quickie - can wildcards be used in CASE statements? I have inherited some code and wondered if this:
(case substring(anownedby,0,charindex('/',anownedby))
when '2361' then 'GOD' when '2361c' then 'GOD' when '2361d' then 'GOD'
when '6206252' then 'BIL' when 'bil' then 'BIL' else 'XXX' end) as branchcould be replaced with this:
(case substring(anownedby,0,charindex('/',anownedby))
when '2361%' then 'GOD' when '6206252' then 'BIL' when 'bil' then 'BIL' else 'XXX' end) as branchThanks
L3K
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Just another thought, rather than taking a substring first, would something like the following be faster or will the 'like's hit performance worse:
Ta!
case
when anownedby like '2968%' then 'RUS'
when anownedby like '1997%' then 'LEW'
... 28 more 'whens'...
else 'XXX' end as branchTa!
Last edited by linker3000 : Feb 29th, 2008 at 10:06 am.
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