Subject Re: [firebird-support] COALESCE & CASE
Author Helen Borrie
At 07:03 PM 7/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>First, I really like these two and kudos to the developers for including
>them. I was just curious; is the syntax used for these compliant

SQL standard compliant, yes

>or
>will I have a difficulty using the same syntax with other DB's?

Depends on the DB. MSSQL Server, for example, is highly non-compliant, so
you should never expect it to work with standard SQL syntax without checking.

h.