>>>> 2011/03/14 16:08 +0100, Johan De Meersman >>>>
I'm afraid I'm not authoritative on this, but it seems to me that it would be very very
bad if the third, unused expression were to be evaluated - not only from a performance
point of view, but who is to say that that expression is not a user-defined function that
modifies the database ?
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Yes, but Access s "IIF", of the same use, evaluates all three, and the documentation
explicitly says so. MySQL s, that I have seen, says neither. Assuming the worst is safer,
and then one uses CASE ..., but if not, ....
