Re: no IF - am I missing something ?

In article <20050321075049(dot)GA18302(at)winnie(dot)fuhr(dot)org>,
Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:35:22AM -0600, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
>> The number of lines depends merely on where you place your line breaks.
>>
>> IF(days_complete <= 120, job_price, 0)AS Days_120
>>
>> could be written as:
>>
>> CASE WHEN days_complete <= 120 THEN job_price ELSE 0 END AS Days_120
>>
>> There might be somewhat less syntactic sugar, but this is not a five
>> line expression and, to me, is more readable than a comma-delimited
>> list where position alone indicates function in the expression.

> CASE is also standard SQL, whereas IF isn't (unless I've overlooked
> it in the SQL:2003 draft).

CASE, despite being standard SQL, is even supported by MySQL ;-)