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From Bricklen Anderson
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In response to Using Control Flow Functions in a SELECT Statement  ("Ashish Ahlawat" <[email protected]>)
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Ashish Ahlawat wrote:
>  
> Hi Team
>  
> I am unable to fetch data using following simple query it prompts 
> following error
>  
> *ORA: 00907: Missing right parenthesis*
> 
> Query :-
> 
> SELECT
> 
> Name AS Title, StatID AS Status, RatingID AS Rating,
> 
> IF(NumDisks>1, 'Check for extra disks!', 'Only 1 disk.') AS Verify
> 

i. That's an Oracle error message.
ii. IF does not belong in an SQL query. Use CASE.

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