http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/ SQLQueriesNoCode Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:52:57 GMT John Warner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4361 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4361 http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-datetime.html John Warner ... and Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:40:44 GMT Muhammad Rafizeldi http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4360 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4360 my query become slow because i used non postgresql standard function dateadd() is mssql function, i didn't realize it before to solve my problem, i use +/- Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:18:28 GMT Tim Mitchell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4359 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4359 You can use the RIGHT function to accomplish this. Assuming your location code column is character data, use something similar to the following: RIGHT('0000' Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:55:04 GMT Paul http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4358 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4358 Hello all: I am an Oracle SQL neophyte and need to be able to dothe following: My customer used to send in a location code of up to 4 characters with leading Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:13:30 GMT J P http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4357 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4357 Thanks, the suggestions triggered this solution.  Thanks for all responses, it pointed me in the right direction   Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:07:49 GMT dina_4ev3r http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4356 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4356 I don't have any instance of SQL server to check the query. But as far as I can recollect the syntax it should work. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:57:24 GMT John Warner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4355 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4355 SELECT degree1, degree2, (CASE WHEN degree2 IS NULL THEN degree1 ELSE degree1 + ', ' + degree2 END) AS all_degrees FROM fac_facultytbl GROUP BY degree1, Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:13:46 GMT pulverizers73 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4354 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4354 Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'is'. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:58:05 GMT dina_4ev3r http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4352 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4352 I think you'll have to check Is NULL and not just NULL try this way select degree1,degree2, (case when degree2 IS NULL then degree1 else degree1+', '+degree2 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:31:23 GMT pulverizers73 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4350 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4350 Why is all_degrees null when degree2 is null? what am i missing? it only works if degree2 is not null I want DEGREE1, DEGREE2 (if not null) select Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:05:42 GMT John Warner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4349 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4349 Actually it should have been the "_" underscore. I only wanted to match a single character. The '%' character matches zero or more characters. But you are Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:16:08 GMT MELVYN LOPEZ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4348 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4348 THE FINAL UPDATE STATEMENT... see, that this resolves your problem... Sometimes, it takes multiple tries.... update Table t set t.description= t2.description Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:55:05 GMT MELVYN LOPEZ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4347 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4347 BTW, it is always good practice to test your update query with a select of which rows are going to be affected by the update... here is what i do: I highlight Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:50:45 GMT MELVYN LOPEZ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4346 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4346 REMATCH2:  I left out the non-null requirement for instance t2. ..sorry. Here it is again: update Table t set t.description= t2.description from Table t, Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:43:59 GMT MELVYN LOPEZ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4345 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SQLQueriesNoCode/message/4345 REMATCH:  I left out the null requirement...sorry. Here it is again: update Table t set t.description= t2.description from Table t, Table t2 where