Mysql case when in list

I have a procedure that contains CASE expression statement like so:

BEGIN
....
WHILE counter < total DO
....

 CASE ranking
  WHEN 1 OR 51 OR 100 OR 167 THEN SET
   project_name = 'alpha';
  WHEN 2 THEN SET
   project_name = 'beta';
  WHEN 10 OR 31 OR 40 OR 61 THEN SET
   project_name = 'charlie';
  ....
  ELSE SET
   project_name = 'zelta';
 END CASE;

 INSERT INTO project (id, name) VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID(), project_name);
 SET counter = counter + 1;

END WHILE;
END
$$
DELIMITER ;

When I call the above procedure, cases with OR statements are either skipped completely or only the first item in the list is matched. What am I doing wrong?

asked Jul 8, 2014 at 11:26

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CASE ranking
  WHEN 1 THEN 'alpha' 
  WHEN 2 THEN 'beta'  
  WHEN 10 THEN 'charlie' 
  ELSE 'zelta' 
END CASE;

You can use one of expresions that WHEN has, but you cannot mix both of them.

1) WHEN when_expression Is a simple expression to which input_expression is compared when the simple CASE format is used. when_expression is any valid expression. The data types of input_expression and each when_expression must be the same or must be an implicit conversion.

2) WHEN Boolean_expression Is the Boolean expression evaluated when using the searched CASE format. Boolean_expression is any valid Boolean expression.

You could program:

1)

 CASE ProductLine
         WHEN 'R' THEN 'Road'
         WHEN 'M' THEN 'Mountain'
         WHEN 'T' THEN 'Touring'
         WHEN 'S' THEN 'Other sale items'
         ELSE 'Not for sale'

2)

CASE 
         WHEN ListPrice =  0 THEN 'Mfg item - not for resale'
         WHEN ListPrice < 50 THEN 'Under $50'
         WHEN ListPrice >= 50 and ListPrice < 250 THEN 'Under $250'
         WHEN ListPrice >= 250 and ListPrice < 1000 THEN 'Under $1000'
         ELSE 'Over $1000'
      END

But in any case you can expect that the variable ranking is going to be compared in a boolean expresion.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181765.aspx

answered Jul 8, 2014 at 11:34

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you can use in to compare the values both numeric or character

CASE 
  WHEN ranking in(1,2,3) THEN '1Q' 
  WHEN ranking in(4,5,6) THEN '2Q'
  ELSE '3Q' 
END CASE;

CASE 
  WHEN ranking in('1','2','3') THEN '1Q' 
  WHEN ranking in('4','5','6') THEN '2Q'
  ELSE '3Q' 
END CASE;

this will also work in select statement and stored procedure also.

select case when month(curdate()) in (4,5,6) then 1 when month(curdate()) in (7,8,9) then 2  else 3 end as fiscal_quarter ; 

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answered Oct 8, 2021 at 9:05

There are two different types of CASE quires.
One is matching value and other one is matching condition.

First Type ( matching value )

MySQL Query Comparing with value, Syntax is here

CASE A_value
    WHEN B_value THEN B_statement
    [WHEN C_Value THEN C_statement] ...
    [ELSE X_statement]
END CASE

• Video on SQL CASE WHEN .. THEN

Here A_value is matched with different values given under WHEN. If A_value equals to B_value then B_statement is executed. If it is not matched than next WHEN value C_value is checked. If nothing is matched then statement under X_statement is executed.

If any WHEN statement is matched then rest WHEN statements are not checked and matched statement is returned. Let us try one example
We will use our student table for this example. We have allotted rooms for the classes at different floors in a school. Our list should display student details with class and location of the class. Using CASE in our query statement is here.

SELECT  `id` ,  `name` ,  `class` ,  `mark` ,  `gender` , 
CASE class
WHEN  'four' THEN   '1st floor'
WHEN  'five' THEN    '2nd floor'
WHEN  'three' THEN    '2nd floor'
WHEN  'two' THEN    '1st floor'

ELSE 'Ground floor'
END AS  location
FROM  `student`

id	name	class	mark	gender	location
1	John Deo	Four	75	male	1st floor
2	Max Ruin	Three	85	male	2nd floor
3	Arnold	Three	55	male	2nd floor
4	Krish Star	Four	60	male	1st floor
5	John Mike	Four	60	male	1st floor
6	Alex John	Four	55	male	1st floor
7	My John Rob	Fifth	78	male	Ground floor
8	Asruid	Five	85	male	2nd floor
9	Tes Qry	Six	78	male	Ground floor
10	Big John	Four	55	male	1st floor

There are more records , here it is limited to 10 only.

We can display based on the floor wise or location wise by using order by query

SELECT  `id` ,  `name` ,  `class` ,  `mark` ,  `gender` , 
CASE class
WHEN  'four' THEN   '1st floor'
WHEN  'five' THEN    '2nd floor'
WHEN  'three' THEN    '2nd floor'
WHEN  'two' THEN    '1st floor'

ELSE 'Ground floor'
END AS  location
FROM  `student` ORDER BY location

Second Type (Matching condition with CASE statement)

In this case we don't specify any value or data to be matched, instead we work on testing some conditions and if it is True then respective statement is to be executed.

CASE
    WHEN condition_to_check THEN statement
    [WHEN condition_to_check THEN statement ...
    [ELSE statement]
END CASE

Here we check the condition and if it is True then the respective statement is executed.
Example :
We will try our student example. Here student grade is awarded based on the mark they got. Here is the query

SELECT  `id` ,  `name` ,  `class` ,  `mark` ,  `gender` , 
CASE 
WHEN mark >= 90 THEN   'A'
WHEN mark >= 80 THEN    'B'
WHEN mark >= 70 THEN   'C'
ELSE 'FAIL'
END AS  grade
FROM  `student`

id	name	class	mark	gender	grade
1	John Deo	Four	75	male	C
2	Max Ruin	Three	85	male	B
3	Arnold	Three	55	male	FAIL
4	Krish Star	Four	60	male	FAIL
5	John Mike	Four	60	male	FAIL
6	Alex John	Four	55	male	FAIL
7	My John Rob	Fifth	78	male	C
8	Asruid	Five	85	male	B
9	Tes Qry	Six	78	male	C
10	Big John	Four	55	male	FAIL
11	Ronald	Six	89	male	B
12	Recky	Six	94	male	A
13	Kty	Seven	88	male	B

Using BETWEEN Query

While grouping in a rang it is better to use MySQL BETWEEN Query

SELECT  `id` ,  `name` ,  `class` ,  `mark` ,  `gender` , 
CASE 
WHEN mark BETWEEN  90  AND 100 THEN   'A'
WHEN mark BETWEEN  80  AND 89 THEN    'B'
WHEN mark BETWEEN  70  AND 79 THEN   'C'
ELSE 'FAIL'
END AS  grade
FROM  `student`

CASE with GROUP BY

We can further break the gender column to get number of male and female in each class by using SQL GROUP BY.

SELECT class, count(*) as Total,
sum(CASE WHEN gender ='male' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as Male,
sum(CASE WHEN gender ='Female' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as Female 
FROM student group by class;

Output

class	Total	Male	Female
Eight	1	1	0
Five	3	3	0
Four	9	4	5
Nine	2	1	1
Seven	10	5	5
Six	7	2	5
Three	3	2	1

Using with NULL data

If any column has NULL data and we want to return 'checked' when it is not null and return 'not_checked' when it is NULL.

SELECT CASE WHEN c_name IS NOT NULL THEN 'checked' 
ELSE 'not_checked' 
END as my_status from STUDENT

Here c_name is the column name storing the status of the record, checked or not.

Download the SQL dump of the above student table

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