Subject Re: [firebird-support] CASE statement Question
Author Martijn Tonies
Arno,

> > SELECT Code, SUM(CASE Amount WHEN NULL THEN 0 else Amount) from TableA
> >
> > But this is not working. I tried to use IF..THEN..ELSE But it was also
> failure for me.
>
> In Firebird 1.5 you can do:
>
> SELECT
> Code,
> CASE WHEN SUM(Amount) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE Amount END
> FROM
> TableA

Mind you - the result of the above query is different that what might
be the intention of the first attempt.

You're transforming SUM = NULL to 0, while his first attempt was
to SUM x, but when x = NULL, then x = 0...


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird & MS SQL Server.
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