Question

MyTable
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Item NVARCHAR(200)
Hidden BIT

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I need to load all the items from MyTable in a DropDownList in such format: Item (Hidden)

This how my list would look like:

Brush
Table (Hidden)
Box (Hidden)
PC
Ball

N.B: I’ve reached in my search to this SQL entry:

SELECT        ID, Item + '(' + CAST(Hidden AS NVARCHAR(200)) + ')' AS Conct
FROM            Items

Which Returns Item(0) or Item(1)

..I can’t think of a simple way to use for my purpose but I thought I’d change the Hidden column to NVARCHAR and store hidden or blank in it .. or maybe add another column that stores the word ‘Hidden’ for any ‘1’ in the Hidden (BIT) column. What do you think guys ?

Answer 1

You can use the CASE statement:

SELECT ID, 
       Item + (CASE Hidden WHEN 1 THEN ' (Hidden)' ELSE '' END) AS Conct
FROM Items