I was looking into the function Contains but it can only be used in the Where predicate, what I'm looking for is something of the sorts
Select doc.* , IsSync = StringContains('Sync', doc.Url) from vw_Doc as doc
IsSync now would contain 1/0 or true/false, depending if the word Sync exists in the document Url.
Is this at all possible ?
Thank you for your time
Edit: StringContains is meant as a pseudo-function, it's not valid syntax
I would use case and charindex().
select
doc.* ,
case
when charindex('Sync', doc.Url) > 0
then 1
else 0
end as IsSync
from
vw_Doc as doc
Contains is not limited to a where clause, it returns a boolean that can be used in various contexts, e.g.:
select *,
case when Contains( doc.url, 'Sync' ) then 1 else 0 end as IsSync
from vw_Doc;
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How to convert this SQL query to an Excel formula?
CASE
WHEN UPPER(V_out) = 'GOOGLE' OR (UPPER(V_out) = 'APPLE' AND dis > 800)
THEN 2
ELSE
CASE
WHEN UPPER(V_out) IN ('APPLE', 'MOZILLA', 'SAMSUNG') OR UPPER(V_out) IS NULL
THEN 0
ELSE -2
END
END
So far I have tried this:
=IF(AND(CU2>800;OR(UPPER(LS2)="GOOGLE";UPPER(LS2)="APPLE"));2;IF(OR(MATCH(UPPER(LS2);{"APPLE";"MOZILLA";"SAMSUNG"};0);UPPER(LS2)=0);0)-2)
And it doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas where I made a mistake?
Thanks!
The MATCH needs a ISNUMBER(...) wrapper:
ISNUMBER(MATCH(UPPER(LS2);{"APPLE";"MOZILLA";"SAMSUNG"};0))
That way it returns a TRUE/FALSE and not a number or error.
and UPPER(LS2)=0 just needs to be LS2=""
and AND(CU2>800;OR(UPPER(LS2)="GOOGLE";UPPER(LS2)="APPLE")) does not quite match the case statement:
OR(UPPER(LS2)="GOOGLE";AND(UPPER(LS2)="APPLE";CU2>800))
is more like the case statement.
The -2 is in the wrong place.
=IF(OR(UPPER(LS2)="GOOGLE";AND(UPPER(LS2)="APPLE";CU2>800));2;IF(OR(ISNUMBER(MATCH(UPPER(LS2);{"APPLE";"MOZILLA";"SAMSUNG"};0));LS2="");0;-2))
I'm very new in using Cognos report studio and trying to filter some of the values and replace them into others.
I currently have values that are coming out as blanks and want to replace them as string "Property Claims"
what i'm trying to use in my main query is
CASE WHEN [Portfolio] is null
then 'Property Claims'
ELSE [Portfolio]
which is giving me an error. Also have a different filter i want to put in to replace windscreen flags to a string value rather than a number. For example if the flag is 1 i want to place it as 'Windscreen Claims'.
if [Claim Windscreen Flag] = 1
then ('Windscreen')
Else [Claim Windscreen Flag]
None of this works with the same error....can someone give me a hand?
Your first CASE statement is missing the END. The error message should be pretty clear. But there is a simpler way to do that:
coalesce([Portfolio], 'Property Claims')
The second problem is similar: Your IF...THEN...ELSE statement is missing a bunch of parentheses. But after correcting that you may have problems with incompatible data types. You may need to cast the numbers to strings:
case
when [Claim Windscreen Flag] = 1 then ('Windscreen')
else cast([Claim Windscreen Flag], varchar(50))
end
In future, please include the error messages.
it might be syntax
IS NULL (instead of = null)
NULL is not blank. You might also want = ' '
case might need an else and END at the bottom
referring to a data type as something else can cause errors. For example a numeric like [Sales] = 'Jane Doe'
For example (assuming the result is a string and data item 2 is also a string),
case
when([data item 1] IS NULL)Then('X')
when([data item 1] = ' ')Then('X')
else([data item 2])
end
Also, if you want to show a data item as a different type, you can use CAST
I have a nested if statement is returning "False" rather than the expected outcome.
Scenario
Table "High VoltageCables" has data in it that default to numeric but may contain characters: kVa
Table "Master" checks "High VoltageCables" data as blank or not blank, and returns "Failed Check 1","Passed Check 1". This works fine.
Table "Meta" then checks the results of "Master" and then tests "High VoltageCables" data for length between 1 and 6, regardless of whether record is numeric or string.
Formula
=IF(MASTER!H2="Passed Check 1",IF(LEN('High VoltageCables'!O2)>=1,IF(LEN('High VoltageCables'!O2<6),"Passed Check 2","Failed Check 2")))
This is partially succesful, as it returns "Passed Check 2" for the following sample data in the source table "High VoltageCables".
1 numeric, or
1kVa str, or
50000 numeric
However if a field in "High VoltageCables"is blank, the formula returns "FALSE" rather than "Failed Check 1"
I inherited this task, (and would have preferred to do the whole thing in Access using relatively simple queries) - and unfortunately I am new to nested If statements, so I am probably missing something basic...
NB the data in High VoltageCables must default to numeric for a further check to work.
The first and second IF's seem to be missing the else part. They should be added at the end between the ))) like ), else ), else )
Every IF statement consists of IF( condition, truepart, falsepart) if you have two nested ifs it will be something like IF( condition, IF( condition2, truepart2, falsepart2), falsepart)
Hope that makes it a little clearer
You do have an unaccounted for FALSE in the middle IF. Try bring the latter two conditions together.
=IF(Master!H2="Passed Check 1",IF(OR(LEN('High VoltageCables'!O2)={1,2,3,4,5}),"Passed Check 2","Failed Check 2"))
It's still a bit unclear on what to show or not show if Master!H2 does not equal "Passed Check 1".
I failed to construct the formula with a concluding "else" - "Failed Check 1"
Using jeeped's and Tom's suggestion and adding the final "else" part I have solved the problem:
=IF(MASTER!H2="Passed Check 1",IF(OR(LEN('High VoltageCables'!O2)={1,2,3,4,5}),"Passed Check 2","Failed Check 2"),"Failed Check 1")
I have a query calculation that should throw me either a value (if conditions are met) or a blank/null value.
The code is in the following form:
if([attribute] > 3)
then ('value')
else ('')
At the moment the only way I could find to obtain the result is the use of '' (i.e. an empty character string), but this a value as well, so when I subsequently count the number of distinct values in another query I struggle to get the correct number (the empty string should be removed from the count, if found).
I can get the result with the following code:
if (attribute='') in ([first_query].[attribute]))
then (count(distinct(attribute)-1)
else (count(distinct(attribute))
How to avoid the double calculation in all later queries involving the count of attribute?
I use this Cognos function:
nullif(1, 1)
I found out that this can be managed using the case when function:
case
when ([attribute] > 3)
then ('value')
end
The difference is that case when doesn't need to have all the possible options for Handling data, and if it founds a case that is not in the list it just returns a blank cell.
Perfect for what I needed (and not as well documented on the web as the opposite case, i.e. dealing with null cases that should be zero).
This is my first question on the forum, but reading previous questions has been enormously helpful in the project I'm working on, so already my thanks. I couldn't find an answer to this, but apologies if I overlooked something.
I am writing an excel macro in vba, and am trying to create a select case... statement in which the expression has a variable boolean and numeric component. For example, the macro can pull "> 3" or "< 3" from another worksheet.
My hope had been that I could assign to a string all of these parameters, i.e.:
test1 = "is " & BoolOperator1 & " " & NumericValue1
and then
Select case ValuetoCompare
Case test1
'Do something
Case test2
'...
Is there a way to do this? I suppose the alternative would be to nest the case with the numeric variable inside a select function that determines the operator, but I thought this would be more elegant.
Thanks in advance for your guidance--
Josh
Assuming that you'll get a string BoolOperator1 that is a valid operator, e.g. >=, =, and a numeric value NumericValue1, the easiest way to execute this comparison on another numeric value ValueToCompare is to use the Evaluate function. This will execute a string as VBA and return it's result.
In your case, you could simply use:
If Evaluate(ValueToCompare&BoolOperator1&NumericValue1) Then ...
If you want to use this in a Select Case statement, you'd either need to use a simple If ... ElseIf ... statement - or use this trick:
Select Case True
Case Evaluate(ValueToCompare&BoolOperator1&NumericValue1): ...
Case Evaluate(ValueToCompare&BoolOperator2&NumericValue2): ...
Case Else ...
End Select