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Creating a conditional 'where' clause
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03/06/1999 16:07:31
 
 
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03/06/1999 15:33:38
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00226172
Message ID:
00226208
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26
>I am trying to create a remote view (from SQL Server back end) that would emulate the following Passthrough code:
>
>
IF gcFunction = '001'
>  sqlexec(handle, 'select * from p1', 'p1')
>ELSE
>  sqlexec(handle, 'select * from p1 where p1_funckey = {gcfunction}', 'p1')
>ENDIF
>
>In other words, I want all records if the value of gcFunction is '001', otherwise I want to filter for p1_funckey equaling the value of gcFunction. I have already tried a variety of IIF() constructs in the where clause, but that doesn't work. How do I do this?
>
>Thanks

This query will actually run on back-end (SQL-Server), so you may better just call stored procedure with parameter telling it what actual SELECT should be used within it. I guess you will accomodate CASE statements within internal SQL Selects.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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