Question

In my query I need to pick up this up in a CASE statement

''

Is there a way I could pull those? obviously I can’t go "''" or ''''

Answer 1

Actually your second guess was close. Once the string is open '' is the correct way to specify a quote. So your string would be ''''''.

Edit:

SELECT CASE when my_field = '''''' then 'yes' else 'no' end from my_table;

Edit 2:

Based on your comment, are you sure that it has the value ''. It sounds like it is a boolean field. In which case it’s value is null. Do you mean something like:

SELECT CASE WHEN my_field IS NULL THEN 'yes' ELSE 'no' END FROM my_table;