Retrieving i18n data with fallback language

Question

I have to grab i18n text from a database. The default language is English, it has text for everything. But the non-English languages doesn\'t necessarily have all t

Answer 1

try something like this:

SELECT
    e.key,COALESCE(o.value,e.value)
    FROM Translation                e
        LEFT OUTER JOIN Translation o ON e.key=o.key and o.language_code='nl'
    WHERE e.language_code='en'