Control Flow Functions

Built-In functions for assessing data to determine what results to return.

Title Description
CASE OPERATOR Returns the result where value=compare_value or for the first condition that is true.
DECODE Decrypts a string encoded with ENCODE(), or, in Oracle mode, matches expressions.
DECODE_ORACLE Synonym for the Oracle mode version of DECODE().
IF Function If expr1 is TRUE, returns expr2; otherwise it returns expr3.
IFNULL Check whether an expression is NULL.
NULLIF Returns NULL if expr1 = expr2.
NVL Synonym for IFNULL.
NVL2 Returns a value based on whether a specified expression is NULL or not.
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