Re: Possible to use a conditional in this UPDATE

[Brent Baisley]

You can nest the IF statement, putting another where 'soon' is like  
Jasper suggested. Or you can use the CASE WHEN THEN construct if you  
have a lot of conditions you need to check for.


On Oct 28, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> on 10/27/05 6:34 PM, Scott Haneda at lists@stripped wrote:
>
>
>> Right now, my update works as follows, and works fine, however, I  
>> want to do
>> a condition to say if products.ship_status = 1 then set
>> cart_test.shipping_status to 'now' else set it to 'soon'
>>
>> UPDATE cart_test, products
>> SET cart_test.shipping_status = products.ship_status
>> WHERE products.id = cart_test.product_id AND cart_test.session_id  
>> = '5511'
>>
>> Is this even possible, if so, can someone help me out a bit.
>> Thanks
>>
>
> I think I partly got it:
> UPDATE cart, products
> SET cart.ship_status = IF(products.ship_status = 1, 'now', 'soon')
> WHERE products.id = cart.product_id AND
> cart.session_id = "5511"
>
> However, I need a ELSE in there, I can not always assume other than  
> '1' is
> 'soon', is there some way to add in a ELSE?
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