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May 8th, 2008, 04:54 PM

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CASE Syntax help

Basically I want to do math in the case statement.

The org and cur fields are dollar amounts.

The 1.0, and .05 amounts come from another field, but I put them there for testing purposes.

I am new to SQL so I am sorry if I am way off here and this doesn't make any since.

My question is also, where would the result of the case be stored? Can I put the result in my own field? Do I have to use a field in the file to store the result?

SELECT
pnacct,
case when ((pncshorg - pncshcur) < (1.0 * pncshorg)) then (pncshorg - pncshcur) else 0 END,
case when ((pnqasorg - pnqascur) < (.05 * pnqasorg)) then (pnqasorg - pnqascur) else 0 END,
case when ((pnnasorg - pnnascur) < (.05 * pnnasorg)) then (pnnasorg - pnnascur) else 0 END,
case when ((pnnrsorg - pnnrscur) < (.05 * pnnrsorg)) then (pnnrsorg - pnnrscur) else 0 END,
case when ((pnpsrorg - pnpsrcur) < (.05 * pnpsrorg)) then (pnpsrorg - pnpsrcur) else 0 END

FROM FILENAME
WHERE PNDCLNO = 100078
GROUP BY PNACCT

May 8th, 2008, 05:54 PM

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give each of those an alias after the END.

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