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CASE in select query
Posted by: jim giner
Date: April 04, 2012 02:31PM

I vaguely remember using a case clause in a select statement in a former occupation, but now that I am using mysql (with php) I am encountering my first need for it and don't know if I can do what I want.

I need to add a sequencing field to my query results based upon whether a column in my query is equal to or not equal to another column in the same row of my results. All the Case examples I run across in my searches show something like:
case (fldname) when '1' then '2' when '2' then '3' end as (newfldname)

What I would like to do is:

case (fldname) when (= otherfld) then '1' else '0' end as srtfld

Can you do this kind of thing?

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