Re: Small select question...

[Geoff Coffey <gcoffey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/20/01 1:20 PM, Bryan Coon at bcoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Sorry for the ambiguity, I was trying to make a really generic select
> statement.  I just meant that if 'where a = A.a' has no matches, but 'where
> b = B.b' or 'where c = C.c' does match, the query returns what did match,
> and just returns null where it didnt.  I will look at the CASE WHEN...THEN.

How is this not just:

 ... Where a = A.a or b = B.b or c=C.c ...

Thanks,

Geoff


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