Re: weird(to me) request

--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 20:59:25 +0200 Adam Wieckowski
<adam-wieckowski@tlen.pl> wrote:

> U¿ytkownik Larry Rosenman napisa³:
>
>> I have the following rows (in addition to others):
>>
>> acct_num text,
>> master_acct_num text,
>>
>>
>> These are in the same table.
>>
>> What I want to enforce is that if the master_acct_num field is NOT
>> NULL (it can be NULL, and
>> that's fine), that the value appears in some row as acct_num.
>> acct_num has a unique index on it, so that's fine.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to do this....
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> LER
>>
>>
> select
>     case
>         when master_acct_num is null
>             then acct_num
>         else master_acct_num
>     end
>     from table;
>
> did you mained somethink like this ?

I'm actually looking to enforce the fact that if master_acct_num is
entered, it points
to a valid acct_num.

LER



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