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Converting ORACLE statement to SQL [message #77898] Mon, 10 December 2001 23:30 Go to next message
Noma
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Registered: December 2001
Junior Member
We have just converted from Oracle to SQL Server Database. I have a query I created in Oracle and it has a DECODE statement as an expression. SQL Server refuses to run this query responding that DECODE function is not recognised.
Oracle Statement:
decode(A.CM_TYPE,'1SHARE','SHARED COMPETENCIES','2LEAD','SHARED COMPETENCIES','2MAN','SHARED COMPETENCIES')
The English version is :

If A.CM_TYPE = 1SHARE then print SHARED COMPETENCIES............

I need an equivalent in SQL.

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Re: Converting ORACLE statement to SQL [message #77910 is a reply to message #77898] Wed, 12 December 2001 16:57 Go to previous message
sokeh
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Registered: August 2000
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I am not sure what you are doing here but from what I can read of your decode, you are basically saying if A.CM_TYPE = '1SHARE' THEN A.CM_TYPE := 'SHARED COMPETENCIES'
ELSIF A.CM_TYPE = '2LEAD' THEN A.CM_TYPE := 'SHARED COMPETENCIES'
ELSIF A.CM_TYPE = '2MAN' THEN A.CM_TYPE := 'SHARED COMPENTENCIES'
END IF;
If this is correct, then here is the sql server version of it:
CASE A.CM_TYPE
WHEN '1SHARE' THEN 'SHARED COMPETENCIES'
WHEN '2LEAD' THEN 'SHARED COMPETENCIES'
WHEN '2MAN' THEN 'SHARED COMPETENCIES'
ELSE NULL
END
I did not test it so there might be some tweaking to be done but this is the conversion of your oracle decode statement.

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