Question

I have a rather simple PL/SQL query

(...)
DECODE(upper(Table.Column), 'SOMETHING', '---', TABLE2.COLUMN2) as VALUE
(...)

How can I apply the WHERE clause using above statement, because when I use something like:

WHERE upper(VALUE) like 'SOMETHING'

it gives me an empty recordset (and I am absolutely positive that there are records which fulfill those requirements).

I don’t know if that matters, but I am calling this query from within Excel workbook, using VBA and CreateObject("OracleInProcServer.XOraSession").

Answer 1

The easiest solution is to copy and paste.

WHERE upper(DECODE(upper(Table.Column), 'SOMETHING', '---', TABLE2.COLUMN2)) like 'SOMETHING'

SOMETHING is not a good search pattern for LIKE though.