You are lucky! My sinuses are getting better. Decode is a function which is to be called within a SQL statement, not the other way round. What do you translate a "CASE" statement into? That's elementary, my dear Hrishy: a sequence of "if ... then ... else ... end if" commands.
On 2003.07.12 00:39, hrishy wrote:
Hi
I am in urgent need of backporting oracle9i pl/sql to oracle8i.I have encountered some case satements like this
CASE when x>0 then (select y from deptno) else (select Z from emp) end
i need to convert them to decode statements.Can anybody tell me how to write a select statement within decode.
regards Hrishy
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