Categories: Conditional

CASE

Evaluates a list of conditions and returns the first resulting true expression. If a true expression is not found, will return the ELSE statement, if present, or else will return NULL.

Syntax

CASE expression WHEN condition THEN result [ …n ] [ ELSE result ] END → same as input type

• expression: A valid SQL expression, typically, a column name.
• condition: A boolean expression. If condition is true, then return result.
• result: A valid SQL expression.

Examples

SELECT
CASE categories
     WHEN 'Restaurants' THEN 'food'
     WHEN 'Hotels' THEN 'travel'
     ELSE 'no result'
END
FROM table-name

-- food

CASE WHEN condition THEN result [ …n ] [ ELSE result ] END → same as input type

• condition: A boolean expression. If expression=condition is true, then return result.
• result: A valid SQL expression.

Examples

SELECT
CASE
     WHEN categories='Restaurants' THEN 'food'
     WHEN categories='Hotels' THEN 'travel'
     ELSE 'no result'
END
FROM table-name

-- food