How do I perform an IF…THEN in an SQL SELECT?

Question

How do I perform an IF...THEN in an SQL SELECT statement?

For example:

SELECT IF(Obsolete = \'N\' OR InStock = \'Y\' ? 1 :          


        

Answer 1

I like the use of the CASE statements but the question asked for an IF statement in the SQL Select. What I've used in the past has been:

SELECT

   if(GENDER = "M","Male","Female") as Gender

FROM ...

It's like the excel or sheets IF statements where there is a conditional followed by the true condition and then the false condition:

if(condition, true, false)

Furthermore, you can nest the if statements (but then use should use a CASE :-)

(Note: this works in MySQLWorkbench but may not work in other platforms)