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Dividing Product Categories into Departments

I am trying to divide product Categories into different departments. For Example
prod_cat_desc ='100b' which should be department 2nd Floor Standard. Here is the code I have but it doesn't like the name 2nd floor Standard..

case when prod_cat_desc = '100b' or prod_cat_desc ='100c' or prod_cat_desc ='100d' or prod_cat_desc ='100e' or prod_cat_desc ='100f' or prod_cat_desc ='100m' then 1 else 0 end as Department

What am I doing wrong?

Dan Craciun

Can you post the full query? I see no mention of "2nd floor standard"

sharris_glascol

ASKER

2nd floor standard is the name I want to give to all of those items if Prod_cat = each of those..

select ord_no,
line_no,
item_no,
CONVERT(dateTime, CONVERT(char(10), promise_dt, 101)) AS 'Promised Date',
CONVERT(dateTime, CONVERT(char(10), shipped_dt, 101)) AS 'Shipped Date',
imc.prod_cat_desc,
case when promise_dt = shipped_dt then 1 else 0 end as ontime,
case when promise_dt > shipped_dt then 1 else 0 end as early,
case when shipped_dt > promise_dt then 1 else 0 end as late,
case when prod_cat_desc = '100b' or prod_cat_desc ='100c' or prod_cat_desc ='100d' or prod_cat_desc ='100e' or prod_cat_desc ='100f' or prod_cat_desc ='100m' then 1 else 0 end as Department
from oelinhst_sql
join imcatfil_sql AS imc ON oelinhst_sql.prod_cat = imc.prod_cat

Dan Craciun

You mean you want to replace 'Department' with '2nd Floor Standard' or 1 with '2nd Floor Standard'?

sharris_glascol

ASKER

want to replace under department where it says 1 with 2nd Floor Standard

Dan Craciun

Have you tried:

CASE
    WHEN prod_cat_desc = '100b' 
        OR prod_cat_desc = '100c' 
        OR prod_cat_desc = '100d' 
        OR prod_cat_desc = '100e' 
        OR prod_cat_desc = '100f' 
        OR prod_cat_desc = '100m' 
    THEN '2nd Floor Standard' 
    ELSE  '0' 
END 
AS Department

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sharris_glascol

ASKER

yes getting this error message:

Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '2nd Floor Standard' to data type int.

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Dan Craciun

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sharris_glascol

ASKER

thanks

Dan Craciun

Glad I could help!

YZlat

Did you put single quotes around 0?

bbao

better post the whole SQL statement rather than the above field assigment.

BTW, the comparison on prod_cat_desc is a bit complex and hard coded. you may consider putting all possible values of prod_cat_desc in to a table, then use a SELECT statement to determine whether the prod_cat_desc is the scope. using this way, you no need to modify source code if the candidate values are changed.

sharris_glascol

ASKER

yes what if I want to do something similar after the else 0??

case when prod_cat_desc = '100b' or prod_cat_desc ='100c' or prod_cat_desc ='100d' or prod_cat_desc ='100e' or prod_cat_desc ='100f' or prod_cat_desc ='100m' then '2nd Floor Standard' else case when prod_cat_desc = '099a' or prod_cat_desc = '104a' or prod_cat_desc = '103a' or prod_cat_desc = '105a' or prod_cat_desc = '107a' or prod_cat_desc = '109a' or prod_cat_desc = '108a' then 'EM Standard' else '0' end AS Department

now I am getting an error the AS is
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'

Dan Craciun

You're missing an END

CASE 
	WHEN prod_cat_desc = '100b' OR prod_cat_desc ='100c' OR prod_cat_desc ='100d' OR prod_cat_desc ='100e' OR prod_cat_desc ='100f' OR prod_cat_desc ='100m' 
	THEN '2nd Floor Standard' 
	ELSE 
		CASE WHEN prod_cat_desc = '099a' OR prod_cat_desc = '104a' OR prod_cat_desc = '103a' OR prod_cat_desc = '105a' OR prod_cat_desc = '107a' OR prod_cat_desc = '109a' OR prod_cat_desc = '108a' 
			THEN 'EM Standard' 
			ELSE '0' 
		END
END 
AS Department

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