Question

I’m currently generating SQL insert statements from more than one tables, and in the generated data I need to use a CASE statement, like this:

select 'INSERT INTO TABLE1 (f1, f2, f3, f4 ...) values ('        ||t.f1||','        ||CASE              WHEN t.f2 > 0 THEN '1'              ELSE '0'          END CASE   from table2 t , table3 t3 

But at this point if I want to continue my statement with ... END CASE||','|| .... I can’t run the query anymore, as TOAD complains about not finding the FROM keyword.

A quick solution was to separate the ouput into fields, then save it to text, and edit, but there must be a better way.

Answer 1

Use END instead of END CASE

select 'INSERT INTO TABLE1 (f1, f2, f3, f4 ...) values ('        ||t.f1||','        ||CASE              WHEN t.f2 > 0 THEN '1'              ELSE '0'          END||','||t.f2   from table2 t , table3 t3