Question

I have a table called Purchase which has a State column, where 1 is authorized, 2 is completed (there are some other values too).

I also have a Retailer table, which has a column RetailerProcessType, where 1 is one-step and 2 is two-step.

I have the query below:

CASE purc.State
    WHEN 1 THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
    WHEN 2 THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
    WHEN 4 THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
    ELSE '"DECLINED"'
 END                                                                     
 AS Autorised_Decline_Status,

But what I need to do is as follows:

WHEN STATE = 2 AND RetailerProcessType = 1 THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
WHEN STATE = 1 AND RetailerProcessType = 2 THEN '"PENDING"'
WHEN STATE = 2 AND RetailerProcessType = 2 THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
ELSE '"DECLINED"'

The only way I can think of doing this is having a massive IF statement around the query, one for a one-step retailer and another for a two-step, as my understanding is a WHEN clause cannot have an AND in it.

However, this just seems long winded; anybody have any neater ideas?

Answer 1

You could do it this way:

-- Notice how STATE got moved inside the condition:
CASE WHEN STATE = 2 AND RetailerProcessType IN (1, 2) THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
     WHEN STATE = 1 AND RetailerProcessType = 2 THEN '"PENDING"'
     ELSE '"DECLINED"'
END

The reason you can do an AND here is that you are not checking the CASE of STATE, but instead you are CASING Conditions.

The key part here is that the STATE condition is a part of the WHEN.