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IIF in Select
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From
24/11/1998 15:42:39
 
 
To
24/11/1998 14:42:14
Carl Sarazin
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00161059
Message ID:
00161096
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>I'm trying to create a single SQL statement which will give a number of different count(conditional) reading the same variable.
>
>What I tried is using "sum(IIF(,,)) as xxx" several times in my select.
>Here is an instance of what I did.
>
>SELECT sum(IIF(rrspcont = 0,1,0)) as rrsp0,
> sum(IIF(rrspcont = 1,1,0)) as rrsp1, and so fourth
>FROM...
>
>Can I group the IIF in another IIF and still keep the same results?
>(sum(IIF(rrspcont = 0,1, IIF(...) without changing the variable
>name to store the result?
>
>Does anyone know if this is possible?

yep - you can nest IIF()s within a SELECT statement assignment. It's ugly and unreadable, but it can be (and, in my case, has been) done before. In most cases, rethinking the SELECT with nested IIF()s into a SELECT and a CrossTab is far more flexible and maintainable.
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