Question

Is it possible to make a query that returns a different custom value based on a query? Here is an example:

What I have in the table …

number
1
2
3

… and this is what I want returned:

number
one
two
three

How can this be done?

Answer 1

You want a case statement. Depending on your flavor of SQL, something like this should work:

select 
    bar = case 
               when foo = 1 then 'one'
               when foo = 2 then 'two'
               else 'baz' 
          end
from myTable