Showing posts with label contact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contact. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Returning one of two possible values

Hi guys,

I'm another newbie here.

I'm currently designing a small Access db that contains contact details:

Name
ResidentialSuburb
PostalSuburb

I need to create an SQL query that will return Name & "Suburb".
"Suburb" will contain ResidentialSuburb by default, but if this is empty, I would like it to contain PostalSuburb.

Is this possible? Im a bit stumped.

Thanksselect Name
, iif(isnull(ResidentialSuburb),
, PostalSuburb
, iif(ResidentialSuburb=''
, PostalSuburb
, ResidentialSuburb)) as Suburb
from ...
rudy
http://r937.com/|||Thanks Rudy,

Had a bit of a play around and it works a treat

Cheers
Matt