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Old September 16th, 2006, 08:46 AM
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Unhappy Need SQL Help Pleas!!!

Hi!

I'm a Java programmer trying to connect to a DB2/400 database. I'm not much of an SQL programmer and I'm realling having trouble constructing my sql. Hope you could help.

Is there something like an if statement in sql? What I wanted to happend is sumthing like this:

SELECT idnumber
FROM table
WHERE ( num1 || if(num2.length() == 5) {num2 = "0" + num2;}) > '20060916123222' ORDER BY num1 ASC

It says that If my num2's length is equal to five, I have to add another zero at the start of the string. I'm trying to compare strings here.... please help...

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replace if(num2.length() == 5) {num2 = "0" + num2;} with
Code:
case when length(num2) = 5
     then '0' || num2
     else num2
 end
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