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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:38:02+00:00

This could be a simple question, but it’s one I’ve never seen answered before.

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This could be a simple question, but it’s one I’ve never seen answered before. Is there a way to use an if statement’s condition as its value? This would be really useful in cases where lots of calculation is done to determine if a certain condition is met and if it is, that calculation is the result.

As an example:

if ( [intense calculation] > 0, [same intense calculation], 0)

I’m interested particularly with regards to SQL, as I’m working on a report in Access right now and so can’t store the result of the intense calculation in a variable.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure if such a concept exists in the MS Access report world, but how about:

    MAX([intense calculation], 0)

    The obvious benefit of such an approach is that the calculation would only need to be done once.

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