Help needed with code

  • Hello Friends,

    I am trying to use wild character (%) with the CASE statement as below but it doesnt seem to work. Could someone please help me with this ?

    case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POL_COUNTRY_CD,1,2))) when '%%' then

    case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EURO MED' then

    case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when '%%' then

    case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EMA' then 'Intra Euro+MED'

    end

    end

    end

    Many thanks and regards,

    Paul

    Paul

  • Saying that something "doesn't work" is not very helpful. What pattern are you trying to match?

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • Hi Phil,

    I am sorry about the incomplete info. Actually I am trying to match the 'All' pattern as in :

    'Any country where Trade = EURO MED'- this would mean all the countries whose Trade is assigned as 'EURO MED'

    Thanks and Regards,

    Paul

  • But I don't understand why you are even referring to country if you are not filtering on it?

    select * from country where trade = 'euro med' and country = [anything]

    is the same as

    select * from country where trade = 'euro med'

    Can you write out the logic you require more clearly?

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • Let me try another variation of the same problem.

    Are you trying to match all people that speak ALL those languages : French, Spanish, English?

  • Hi,

    What I am simply trying to do is use a wild character with the CASE statement to achieve this scenario-

    I have a table with a list of countries. Here is the sample of that-

    CountryCode---Country Desc-------Region/trade

    AD-------------Andorra------------EURO MED

    AL-------------Albania-------------EURO MED

    ES-------------Spain--------------EURO MED

    TN------------Tunisia--------------EMA

    TR------------Turkey--------------EMA

    What I want to do is display all the countries which have a Region/Trade as 'EURO MED' and this is to be done within a CASE statement. So I have devised the following code which doesnt seem to work. The '%%' denotes the country code.

    case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POL_COUNTRY_CD,1,2))) when '%%' then

    case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EURO MED' then

    case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when '%%' then

    case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EMA' then 'Intra Euro+MED'

    end

    end

    end

    I hope this information helps now.

    Regards,

    Paul

  • I seriously don't understand why you cannot simply do

    SELECT * FROM Tbl

    where [Region/trade] = 'EURO MED'

    Then join to other tables if you're missing data.

  • Hi,

    If its possible, could you please tell me whether it is possible to use '%' as wild character with the CASE statement as in the code I have mentioned ? And how can it be achieved ?

    The code you provided as solution is a basic one and it is not wrong but what I am doing here is a part of a bigger project and wont work with what I want to achieve.

    Thanks and Regards,

    Paul

  • Yep, I've read through a few times and I'm baffled by this one ...

    As well as providing sample input data, can you provide your desired output please? No need to attempt a CASE expression, as you are confusing, rather than illuminating, the problem with it.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • SELECT

    Whatever

    FROM

    dbo.tbl

    WHERE

    1 = CASE WHEN Col LIKE '%your string here%' THEN 1

    ELSE CASE WHEN 'Whatever 2' = 'continue logic here' THEN 1

    ELSE 0

    END

    END

  • pwalter83 (12/21/2010)


    Hi,

    If its possible, could you please tell me whether it is possible to use '%' as wild character with the CASE statement as in the code I have mentioned ? And how can it be achieved ?

    Thanks and Regards,

    Paul

    No. Your logic does not scan.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • Okay guys, No worries..thanks for your suggestions...I guess I have to go about it on my own..

  • pwalter83 (12/21/2010)


    Okay guys, No worries..thanks for your suggestions...I guess I have to go about it on my own..

    No need to.

    What you need to do is make us understand what you need to do. Hence we need to see the actual data and the required output.

    I find that when I cannot explain something clearly to someone else, it usually means that I don't understand myself. And that is possibly your biggest problem with this issue.

  • Thanks for your consideration....here is the detailed version of what I am trying to do-

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I need to assign a value to a column called 'tradelane' for each unique BL_ID in the NCV_BL_DHL_TEMP

    table. This column will be part of a newly created table called- DHL_TEMP and table structure is as follows:

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DHL_TEMP]

    (

    [BL_ID] [decimal](10, 0) NOT NULL,

    [DEPART_ACTUAL_DT] [datetime] NULL,

    [TEU] [decimal](10, 0) NULL,

    [FRT_USD] [decimal](12, 0) NULL,

    [TRADELANE] [nvarchar](50) NULL,

    )

    The value is to be assigned based on using columns from 2 other tables-

    1. NCV_BL_DHL_TEMP

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[NCV_BL_DHL_TEMP]

    (

    [BL_ID] [decimal](10, 0) NOT NULL,

    [BL_NUM] [nvarchar](13) NULL,

    [CP_GROUP_CD] [nvarchar](30) NULL,

    [POL_COUNTRY_CD] [nvarchar](2) NULL,

    [POD_COUNTRY_CD] [nvarchar](2) NULL,

    [SAISAN_VESSEL_CD] [nvarchar](6) NULL,

    [SAISAN_VOYAGE_CD] [nvarchar](6) NULL,

    [SAISAN_LEG_CD] [nvarchar](1) NULL,

    [DEPART_ACTUAL_DT] [datetime] NULL,

    [TEU] [decimal](10, 0) NULL

    )

    2. DHL_TRADE_ASSIGNMENT-

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DHL_TRADE_ASSIGNMENT]

    (

    [COUNTRY_CD] [nvarchar](2) NOT NULL,

    [COUNTRY_DSC] [nvarchar](50) NULL,

    [REGION_TRADE] [nvarchar](3) NULL,

    [SUB_REGION] [nvarchar](50) NULL

    )

    The DHL_TRADE_ASSIGNMENT is a static table and will have limited rows. The sample data from the same is as under:

    Country Code--Country------Region/Trade-----Sub Region

    AO------------Angola-------EMA------------- AFRICA

    BI------- -----Burundi-------EMA------------- AFRICA

    BJ-------------Benin--------EMA------------- AFRICA

    CG------------Congo--------EMA-------------AFRICA

    The Tradelane definitions are based on this sample data-

    TRADELANE-----------------POL_COUNTRY_CD----------------POD_COUNTRY_CD

    Euro NC/UK to ASPA---------Starts with GB-------------Any country where Region/Trade = ASPA

    Euro NC/UK to SPAC-------- Starts with GB-------------Any country where Region/Trade = SPAC

    Euro NC/UK to US-----------Starts with GB-------------Starts with US

    Euro NC/UK to CA-----------Starts with GB-------------Starts with CA

    Euro NC/UK to AMLA-------- Starts with GB-------------Any country where Region/Trade = AMLA

    Euro NC/UK to EMA ---------Starts with GB-------------Any country where Region/Trade = EMA

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The solution to the above is as follows-

    select distinct a.BL_ID,a.POL_COUNTRY_CD,a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,b.REGION_TRADE,

    TRADELANE=

    case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POL_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) ))

    when 'GB' then case b.REGION_TRADE when 'SPAC' then 'Euro NC/UK to SPAC'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'ASPA' then 'Euro NC/UK to ASPA'

    else case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when 'US' then 'Euro NC/UK to US'

    else case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when 'CA' then 'Euro NC/UK to CA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'AMLA' then 'Euro NC/UK to AMLA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EMA' then 'Euro NC/UK to EMA'

    else 'Others' end end end end end end

    when 'US' then case b.REGION_TRADE when 'ASPA' then 'US to ASPA'

    else case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when 'GB' then 'US to Euro NC/UK'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EURO MED' then 'US to Euro MED'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'AMLA' then 'US to AMLA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EMA' then 'US to EMA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'BLACK SEA' then 'US to BLACK SEA'

    else 'Others' end end end end end end

    when 'CA' then case ltrim(rtrim(substring(a.POD_COUNTRY_CD,1,2) )) when 'GB' then 'CA to Euro NC/UK'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EURO MED' then 'CA to Euro MED'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'ASPA' then 'CA to ASPA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'AMLA' then 'CA to AMLA'

    else case b.REGION_TRADE when 'EMA' then 'CA to EMA'

    else 'Others' end end end end end

    end

    from NCV_BL_DHL_TEMP a

    INNER JOIN

    DHL_TRADE_ASSIGNMENT b

    on a.POD_COUNTRY_CD = ltrim(rtrim(substring(b.COUNTRY_CD,1,2)))

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Now what I want to do is write a query for this part-

    TRADELANE-----------POL_COUNTRY_CD------ --------------------POD_COUNTRY_CD

    Intra Euro+MED---Any country where Region/Trade= EURO MED---Any country where region/Trade = EMA

    I would completely understand if you seem disinterested now due to the length of this message. Any help would be deeply appreciated.

  • want to see a really long query????

    Just one last question. Are all those dashes (-) part of formatting for this message or is it part of the data?

    Maybe something you don't know is possible. You can write it like this :

    CASE when Region/Trade= 'EURO MED' OR region/Trade = 'EMA' THEN ....

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