Error in SQL CASE statement

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 SELECT STATUS,CASE STATUS WHEN 'A' THEN 'Active'
END FROM PROJECT

I get this error : "ERROR in SELECT clause: expression near WHEN"

Posted 11-Oct-13 4:32am

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Hemant Singh Rautela 11-Oct-13 10:59am

I am not getting any Error as you get...

Only the 2nd coulumn result with unnamed but query runs fine and it shows result also...

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thatraja · Answer 1 · 2013-10-11T04:48:00

I think you have to give alias for the 2nd column. Try this

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SELECT STATUS,CASE STATUS WHEN 'A' THEN 'Active'
END AS NEW_STATUS FROM PROJECT

Posted 11-Oct-13 4:48am

P.S Vijay · Answer 2 · 2013-10-15T01:01:00

SELECT STATUS, CASE WHEN STATUS ='A' THEN 'Active' END AS New_Status FROM PROJECT

Posted 15-Oct-13 1:01am

Amol_B · Answer 3 · 2013-10-14T23:45:00

it should not give any error.
Is status column data type is other than varchar?

Posted 14-Oct-13 23:45pm

Updated 14-Oct-13 23:46pm

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