RE: RE: CASE Expressions

CASE is supported in 8.1.6 and 8.1.7. Jonathan, as far as I can tell, your SQL statement is flawed. Shouldn't it be something like:

select case when 1=1 then 2 end as test
  from dual;

Jon Walthour

>--- Original Message ---
>From: Yuval Arnon <Yuval.Arnon_at_wwfent.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Date: 7/23/01 12:42:00 PM
>

Jonathan
>CASE is not supported in 8.1.7.
>
>
>SQL> select * from v$version;
>
    

>
>BANNER
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.1.0 - Production
>
>SQL> SELECT CASE 1 WHEN 1 THEN 2
> 2 FROM dual;
> SELECT CASE 1 WHEN 1 THEN 2
> *
>ERROR at line 1:
>ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
>
>
>SQL>
>
>Yuval
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:03 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>I'm doing some research for a book, and I need to know when
>Oracle began to support CASE expressions. I thought it was
>in Oracle9i, but the new features list seems to imply that
>CASE may have come about in 8.1.7. Can anyone with 8.1.7
>verify this for me? I have 8.1.6 and 9.whatever, but not
>8.1.7 or I'd try it myself.
>
>If you have 8.1.7, and have a second to experiment, try the
>following query as a test:
>
>SELECT CASE 1 WHEN 1 THEN 2
>FROM dual;
>
>Best regards,
>
>Jonathan Gennick
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