Question

In the below query I want to add an AND condition inside the CASE’s WHEN and before THEN is that possible?

for example WHEN ‘r’ AND table1.name=”jones” THEN ‘very high’

SELECT table1.id, table1.name,
   CASE table1.event
     WHEN 'r' THEN 'very high'
     WHEN 't' THEN 'very low'
     ELSE (SELECT table2.risk FROM table2 WHERE table2.value <= table1.value
           ORDER BY table2.value DESC LIMIT 1)
   END AS risk
FROM table1
ORDER BY FIELD( table1.event, 'r', 'f', 't' ), table1.value DESC

Answer 1

You can rewrite your statement like this to accomplish what you want

SELECT table1.id, table1.name,
   CASE 
     WHEN table1.event = 'r' AND table1.name = 'jones' THEN 'very high'
     WHEN table1.event = 't' AND table1.name = 'smith' THEN 'very low'
     ELSE (SELECT table2.risk FROM table2 WHERE table2.value <= table1.value
           ORDER BY table2.value DESC LIMIT 1)
   END AS risk
FROM table1
ORDER BY FIELD( table1.event, 'r', 'f', 't' ), table1.value DESC

notice that you need to remove table1.event after the CASE statement.
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