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Quick SQL syntax check (hopefully!)

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Quick SQL syntax check (hopefully!)

Quick SQL syntax check (hopefully!)

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Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this SQL expression?

The error message is just a syntax error, so I'm sure it's easy if you speak SQL...

SELECT CASE WHEN "Variety" <> '' THEN "Date" || "Denomination" || "Variety" ELSE "Date" || "Denomination" END AS "Concat", "InventoryID" FROM "tblInventory"

RE: Quick SQL syntax check (hopefully!)

as far as ANSI SQL is concerned, i believe there is no error

so if you're getting a syntax error, it's because your particular database system isn't completely ANSI-compliant

what database system are you actually running, and what was the exact error message?

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RE: Quick SQL syntax check (hopefully!)

(OP)
Thank you r937, for your response!  I'm using OpenOffice Base 3.2, as I'm Access-phobic, and I'm trying to break away from Excel now that my lovely old database is too complex and too big for it.  Too much time spent watching it recalculate.

Turns out that I'd be better off using a COALESCE statement than the CASE or CASEWHEN.  OOBase would have been OK with CASEWHEN, apparently, but COALESCE is much tidier, and it works!

thanks a lot, and I'm sure this isn't the last you'll hear from me!

Declan

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