• You can use a CTE or a Derived table like this

    ; WITH cte_Students AS

    (

    SELECT*,

    CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(rate, 1, 1) = '*' THEN '10' ELSE SUBSTRING(rate, 1, 1) END AS game1,

    CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(rate, 2, 1) = '*' THEN '10' ELSE SUBSTRING(rate, 2, 1) END AS game2,

    CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(rate, 3, 1) = '*' THEN '10' ELSE SUBSTRING(rate, 3, 1) END AS game3,

    CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(rate, 4, 1) = '*' THEN '10' ELSE SUBSTRING(rate, 4, 1) END AS game4,

    CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(rate, 5, 1) = '*' THEN '10' ELSE SUBSTRING(rate, 5, 1) END AS game5

    FROMstudents

    )

    SELECT*, ( game1 + game2 + game3 + game4 + game5 ) / 5 AS [percent]

    FROMcte_Students


    Kingston Dhasian

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