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Formatting SQL output strings Database Management forum discussing non-database specific SQL. Structured Query Language was designed to be a robust and standardized language for manipulating relational databases.

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Old February 18th, 2004, 01:32 PM
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Formatting SQL output strings
Hi,

I'm trying to find a way of replacing the strings (varchar) returned by an SQL query with other strings. For example, if my query returns a column containing 'USA', how do I display this as 'United States' in the query results without changing what's in the database (i.e. avoid using update or replace)??

Thanks for any help
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Old February 18th, 2004, 03:28 PM
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Oracle has a decode function:

SELECT decode(country_code, 'USA', 'United States', 'UK', 'Great Britain', 'DE', 'Germany', counry_code)
FROM table

Other alternative is to create a table with the display values, and join the tables in the query.
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That's great, thanks a lot
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