Question

Never heard of computed column until I needed to set one up today so excuse the stupidity. Here is my create table statement

CREATE TABLE [Match](

    [Match Org] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
    [Bypass] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
    [win] as case when [Match Org] == 'yes' or [Bypass] == 'yes' then 'yes' else 'no'

) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

I want the win column to automatically compute to yes if either match org or bypass have yes in them… thanks

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE [Match](

    [Match Org] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
    [Bypass] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
    [win] AS CASE WHEN  ( [Match Org] = 'yes'    --- equality check is:  =
                       OR [Bypass] = 'yes' )     --- not:  ==
                  THEN 'yes' 
                  ELSE 'no'
             END                                 --- END was missing
        PERSISTED             --- you may also want to make
                              --- the column PERSISTED 
) ON [PRIMARY]