Question

I have two tables “customer” and “activation” that I would like to join. Here are their structures:

 CUSTOMER                       Activation
 ------------                  ------------- 
 Id      Name                   EntityId       Date_Created       Type
 1       A                         1               2012            EMAIL
 2       B                         2               2011            SMS
 3       C

Now, I would like to join those two tables on customer.Id = Activation.EntityId. However, i want my final table structure to be like this:

 Id    Name    Date_Email       Date_SMS       

 1      A        2012             NULL
 2      B        NULL             2011

Basically, the columns Date_Email and Date_SMS both come from Activation.Date_Created column. IF Activation.Type is EMAIL, i set Date_Email in my final result to Date_created and set Date_SMS to null. If Activation.type is SMS, i do it the other way.

What i have right now is this:

SELECT Customer.Id, Name, Date_Created AS Date_EMail, DATE_Created AS Date_SMS 
from Customer 
inner join Activation ON Customer.Id = Activation.EntityId;

Now, i need to make a If-else condition based on Activation.Type column. I am quite new to this and I have not been able to figure this out by googling. I am using Oracle XE database btw

Can someone help me with this? Thanks

Answer 1

SELECT Id, Name, A1.Date_Created as Date_Email, A2.Date_Created as Date_SMS FROM
CUSTOMER C
LEFT JOIN Activation A1 ON C.Id=A1.EntityID AND A1.Type='EMAIL'
LEFT JOIN Activation A2 ON C.Id=A2.EntityID AND A1.Type='SMS'

This also adds entity with ID=3, where Date_Email and Date_SMS are null. I don’t know Oracle’s syntax, you can remove the ID=3 with something like WHERE NOT (IsNull(Date_Email) && IsNull(Date_SMS))