Question

I have this query

select item_name from some_table

sometimes item_name is a ‘sometext’ value that I want to replace with item_id column.
I want a functionality similar to isnull, but insteat of null it should be a ‘sometext’.

someting like this:

 select ISTEXT(item_name,'sometext',item_id) from some_table

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for?

SELECT item_name = CASE WHEN item_name = 'sometext' THEN item_id ELSE item_name END