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Conditions in Where clause

I have question. I am  Pulling my data from SQL DB and I want to exclude particular records from a table. Lets say columnA  = "A" and Status = "B" then eliminate records in columnC where ColumnC  = "A1"

How to use a if clause or case clause in where condition?
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SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE (CASE WHEN columnA = 'A' AND Status = 'B' AND columnC = 'A1' THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) = 1

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You can just specify that condition and everything else is "true", and then limit the results to just records that evaluate to "true"
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SELECT FROM TabNAme
WHERE columnA  = 'A'
              and Status = 'B'
              and ColumnC  <> 'A1'
E.g.

SELECT T.* 
FROM schemaName.tableName T 
WHERE NOT (T.columnA = 'A' AND T.Status = 'B') AND NOT columnC = 'A1';

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The above condition should only apply for scenario when columnA  = 'A'  and Status = 'B' not for other values
And in that case where does the "...then eliminate records in columnC where ColumnC  = "A1" stands? Is that needed or not?
If all needed is indeed "...only apply for scenario when columnA  = 'A'  and Status = 'B' " then the SELECT would be like:

SELECT FROM TabNAme
WHERE columnA  = 'A'
              and Status = 'B'
select * from table
except
select * from table
where columnA = 'A'
and Status = 'B'
and columnC = 'A1'
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I am using this CASE statement but it is failing
Where ColumnC <> (CASE WHEN  ColumnA ="A" AND Status = "B" THEN "A1" ELSE Nothing END)
select * from tablename
WHERE ColumnC <> (CASE WHEN  ColumnA = 'A' AND [Status] = 'B' THEN 'A1' ELSE NULL END)
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