How Do I Use Case In Sql Query ?

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my query is below

case when Business_Group like '%Back Office%' then bonus as Support else bonus end as ALC

Posted 20-Jul-15 23:43pm

neeraj_

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See this : http://stackoverflow.com/a/6740207[^]

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Posted 20-Jul-15 23:52pm

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neeraj_ 21-Jul-15 5:56am

sir i want an other column's value instead of like column

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-21T00:02:00

Although your question is not clear, the error in you query was unwanted "as Support" in between the case when statement.
syntactically corrected query is-

SQL

case when Business_Group like '%Back Office%' then bonus else bonus end as ALC

But this is something you never want as result, what I believe. Your logic should be
--if Business_Group contains text like 'Back Office' then return bonus in result as ALC
--if not then return different result for result column ALC

Make sure that you understand "case when..." correctly.
Reference: CASE in SQL Server[^]

Hope, it helps :)

UPDATE
As per the comment by OP, the solution query should look like-

SQL

select case when Business_Group like '%Back Office%' then bonus else NULL end as Support,case when Business_Group like '%Back Office%' then NULL else bonus end as ALC

I beleive there can be a better way to do this but as you wanted the solution using "case when..", this can help.

Please let me know if it doesn't help.