Using CASE in Where Condition

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Using CASE in Where Condition

luissantos

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April 11, 2018 at 5:37 pm

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Hello comunity
I need to use in Where condition a Case statment to show only records where 1=1 or if 1=0 then show ALL:
Where BO.LOGI1 = (CASE WHEN mylogicVariable = 1 THEN 1 END) --Show only records where mylogicVariable = 1, ( 1=1 ) --Now i need to place code to show All records if mylogicvariable = 0 : ( mylogicvariable = 0 or mylogicvariable = 1 ) )
What the best solution to solve this issue.
Best regards
Luis

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Joe Torre SSChampion Points: 10248 More actions · Answer 1

In T-SQL variables must start with the @ character.
Maybe
WHERE BO.LOGI1 = @mylogicVariable;
It's hard to guess, try to provide more complete information.

luissantos SSCertifiable Points: 7391 More actions · Answer 2

Hello Joe

Thanks for your Reply, when i write : mylogicVariable is a variable that i declare in VFP.
what i want is :
Where
BO.LOGI1 = (case when 1=1 then 1 end) -- show only record where BO.LOGI1 = 1
but now i need if BO.LOGI1 = 0 show all records , i mean where my BO.LOGI1 = 0 or BO.LOGI1 = 1Thanks
Luis

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246723 More actions · Answer 3

luissantos - Wednesday, April 11, 2018 5:57 PM
Hello Joe
Thanks for your Reply, when i write : mylogicVariable is a variable that i declare in VFP.
what i want is :
Where
BO.LOGI1 = (case when 1=1 then 1 end) -- show only record where BO.LOGI1 = 1
but now i need if BO.LOGI1 = 0 show all records , i mean where my BO.LOGI1 = 0 or BO.LOGI1 = 1Thanks
Luis

VFP = Visual Foxpro?
BO.LOGI1 is not a variable in T-SQL, as Joe has already pointed out.

If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

luissantos SSCertifiable Points: 7391 More actions · Answer 4

Hello,
Sorry if my question is a bit confusing.
in practice I have a form where there is a checkbox of type true / false.
In this form there is a grid containing a sql query to return records from my BO table.
What I want is when my checkbox equals True, the query returns only the records in the grid where the logi1 field of my BO table is True.
If my checkbox equals False, my query should return all records on the grid where the logi1 field in my BO table equals True or False.
Think for example of an excel sheet where I have a True / false field.
If I enable the filter I can in excel ask to return only the data where the field is equal to True, or all (true / false)
I hope you understood my question better.~
little example in SQL:

Declare @YesNo as bit set @Yesno = 0

Select name, married from mytable A where ( ( @YesNo=1 AND A.married in(1) ) OR ( @YesNo = 0 AND A.married in(0,1) ) )

in my case it works, it looks good or I can do it another way ?

Thanks,
Ls

John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 5

Yes, you can do it like that, or you could build the query dynamically, adding the WHERE clause only if the checkbox is ticked.

John

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246723 More actions · Answer 6

Your suggested solution can be written more succinctly, like this:
DECLARE @YesNo BIT = 0;

SELECT A.name , A.married FROM mytable A WHERE A.married = IIF(@YesNo = 1, 1, A.married);

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sgmunson SSC Guru Points: 110639 More actions · Answer 7

VFP isn't going to provide any other alternative for tables under its auspices. What you have is pretty much the only easy way.....

Steve (aka sgmunson) 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 8

Why are we making it so complex?
Select name, married from mytable A where A.married = 1 OR @YesNo = 0

Luis C.
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luissantos SSCertifiable Points: 7391 More actions · Answer 9

Hello,
Many thanks for all your replies.
Luis Cazares i read your example that is in fact not complex, i think that return both married and not married.
Can you tell me if I'm correct?
But if i want only married ?

Thanks
Luis

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 10

luissantos - Thursday, April 12, 2018 9:05 AM
Hello,
Many thanks for all your replies.
Luis Cazares i read your example that is in fact not complex, i think that return both married and not married.
Can you tell me if I'm correct?
But if i want only married ?
Thanks
Luis

It will return only married, unless the parameter is set to false and then it will ignore the condition and bring both.

Luis C.
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luissantos SSCertifiable Points: 7391 More actions · Answer 11

Hello,

Thansk you Luis for your explanation.

Best regards,
Luis