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The CASE function handles simple IF - THEN - ELSE logic at a select-item level. The WHEN conditions are evaluated in order until a condition proves TRUE, at which point the THEN expression is executed. All of the THEN expressions in a CASE statement must be of the same data type: numeric, character, or date.
CASE
WHEN condition_expression THEN scalar_expression
ELSE scalar_expression
END