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IIF function in SQL Server

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• published: 14 Oct 2015
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iif function in sql server 2012 iif function in sql server example sql server iif function example In this video we will discuss IIF function in SQL Server. IIF function Introduced in SQL Server 2012 Returns one of two the values, depending on whether the Boolean expression evaluates to true or false IIF is a shorthand way for writing a CASE expression Syntax : IIF ( boolean_expression, true_value, false_value ) Example : Returns Male as the boolean expression evaluates to TRUE DECLARE @Gender INT SET @Gender = 1 SELECT IIF( @Gender = 1, 'Male', 'Femlae') AS Gender Example : Using IIF() function with table data. We will use the following Employees table for this example. SQL Script to create Employees table Create table Employees ( Id int primary key identity, Name nvarchar(10), GenderId int ) Go Insert into Employees values ('Mark', 1) Insert into Employees values ('John', 1) Insert into Employees values ('Amy', 2) Insert into Employees values ('Ben', 1) Insert into Employees values ('Sara', 2) Insert into Employees values ('David', 1) Go Write a query to display Gender along with employee Name and GenderId. We can achieve this either by using CASE or IIF. Using CASE statement SELECT Name, GenderId, CASE WHEN GenderId = 1 THEN 'Male' ELSE 'Female' END AS Gender FROM Employees Using IIF function SELECT Name, GenderId, IIF(GenderId = 1, 'Male', 'Female') AS Gender FROM Employees Link for all dot net and sql server video tutorial playlists https://www.youtube.com/user/kudvenkat/playlists?sort=dd&view;=1 Link for slides, code samples and text version of the video http://csharp-video-tutorials.blogspot.com/2015/10/iif-function-in-sql-server.html