Question

I have a query that ultimately will return a column that might have the value “1”, “2”, or “3”, where 1 means RED, 2 means BLUE, and 3 means GREEN.

How can I modify the query so instead of returning 1, ‘RED’ is returned, for 2 ‘BLUE’ is returned, etc

I want my result to be something like:

COLOR

RED

RED

GREEN

BLUE

Instead of :

COLOR

1

1

3

2

Answer 1

SELECT Decode(MyField, 1, 'RED'
                       2, 'BLUE'
                       3, 'GREEN'
                          'UNDEFINED' as myfieldColor

FROM myTable