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Unit 5 - Invoke Conversion Functions and Conditional Expressions

Here are 3 practice queries to try: 1. Use DATE_FORMAT to display the hire date of all employees in MM/YYYY format. 2. Use COALESCE to display the commission percentage or 'No Commission' for all employees. 3. Use a CASE expression to add a 10% bonus to salaries of employees in the 'IT_PROG' department and a 15% bonus to those in the 'ST_CLERK' department. Let me know if any of these need further explanation! Practicing with different functions and expressions will help strengthen your skills.

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Unit 5 - Invoke Conversion Functions and Conditional Expressions

Here are 3 practice queries to try: 1. Use DATE_FORMAT to display the hire date of all employees in MM/YYYY format. 2. Use COALESCE to display the commission percentage or 'No Commission' for all employees. 3. Use a CASE expression to add a 10% bonus to salaries of employees in the 'IT_PROG' department and a 15% bonus to those in the 'ST_CLERK' department. Let me know if any of these need further explanation! Practicing with different functions and expressions will help strengthen your skills.

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Invoke Conversion Functions and Conditional

Expressions
Agenda

• Implicit and explicit data type conversion


• DATE_FORMAT, STR_TO_DATE, CAST functions
• General functions:
• NULLIF
• COALESCE
• Conditional expressions:
• CASE, IF
Conversion Functions

• In some cases, the server receives data of one data type where it
expects data of a different data type; the server can automatically
convert the data to the expected data type. This data type
conversion can be done implicitly by the server or explicitly by the
user.
• Implicit data type conversions work according to the rules
explained in the following slides.
• Explicit data type conversions are performed by using the
conversion functions. Conversion functions convert a value from
one data type to another.
• Although implicit data type conversion is available, it is
recommended that you do the explicit data type conversion
Implicit Data Type Conversion

MySQL server can automatically convert the following:

• VARCHAR or CHAR to NUMBER


• VARCHAR or CHAR to DATE
• NUMBER to VARCHAR or CHAR
• DATE to VARCHAR or CHAR

• CHAR to NUMBER conversions succeed only if the character


string represents a valid number
Explicit Data Type Conversion

SQL provides three functions to convert a value from one data type to
another:
• DATE_FORMAT(date , fmt) - converts a date value to a string with
the format model fmt;
• STR_TO_DATE(char, fmt) - converts a character string
representing a date to a date value according to fmt that is
specified;
• CAST(expression AS TYPE) - converts a value to a specified type.
The target type can be: BINARY, CHAR, DATE, DATETIME, TIME,
DECIMAL, SIGNED, UNSIGNED.
• CONVERT(expression, TYPE) - converts a value into the specified
datatype or character set;
DATE_FORMAT Function
DATE_FORMAT(date,'format_model')

The format model:


• Must be enclosed with single quotation marks
• Is case-sensitive
• Can include any valid date format element
• Is separated from the date value by a comma

SELECT employee_id, DATE_FORMAT(hire_date,‘%M/%Y')


FROM employees
WHERE last_name = 'Higgins';
DATE_FORMAT Function
DATE_FORMAT(date,'format_model')

The format model:


CAST() Function with Numbers

SELECT CAST('-99.357' as DECIMAL(4,2)) SALARY


FROM employees
WHERE last_name = 'Ernst';

• The MySQL server rounds the stored decimal value to the


number of decimal places provided in the format model.
Using the CAST and STR_TO_DATE
• Convert a character string to a number format using the CAST
function:
CAST(char AS TYPE)
• Convert a character string to a date format using the
STR_TO_DATE function:
STR_TO_DATE(char, 'format_model')
• These function has an fix modifier. This modifier specifies the exact
match for the character argument and date format model of a
STR_TO_DATE function:
• punctuation /quoted text in the argument must exactly match
• the character argument cannot have extra blanks.
• numeric data in the character argument must have the same
number of digits as the corresponding element in the format model.
General Functions
• The following functions work with any data type and pertain to
using nulls:

• NULLIF (expr1, expr2) - Compares two expressions and returns


null if they are equal; returns the first expression if they are not
equal.

• COALESCE (expr1, expr2, ..., exprn) - Returns the first non-null


expression in the expression list.
SELECT last_name, salary, COALESCE(commission_pct,
0), 12*salary*(1+COALESCE(commission_pct, 0)) ANSAL
FROM employees;
COALESCE Function

• The advantage of the COALESCE function is that can take multiple


values.

• If the first expression is not null, the COALESCE function returns that
expression; otherwise, it does a COALESCE of the remaining
expressions.
Syntax
COALESCE (expr1, expr2, ... exprn)

SELECT last_name, employee_id,


COALESCE(TO_CHAR(commission_pct),TO_CHAR(manager_id),'N
o commission and no manager')
FROM employees;
Conditional Expressions

• Provide the use of the IF-THEN-ELSE logic within a SQL statement.

• Use two methods:

• CASE expression

• IF expression
CASE Expression
• Facilitates conditional inquiries by doing the work of an IF-THEN-ELSE
statement:

CASE expr
WHEN comparison_expr1 THEN return_expr1
[WHEN comparison_expr2 THEN return_expr2
WHEN comparison_exprn THEN return_exprn
ELSE else_expr]
END

SELECT last_name, job_id, salary, CASE job_id WHEN


'IT_PROG' THEN 1.10*salary WHEN 'ST_CLERK' THEN
1.15*salary WHEN 'SA_REP' THEN 1.20*salary ELSE salary
END "REVISED_SALARY"
FROM employees;
IF Expression
• Facilitates conditional inquiries by doing the work of a CASE
expression or an IF-THEN-ELSE statement:

IF(cond, val_true,val_false)

SELECT last_name, job_id, salary,


if(job_id='IT_PROG',1.10,1)*
if(job_id='ST_CLERK',1.15,1)*
if(job_id='SA_REP',1.20,1)*salary “REVISED_SALARY”
FROM employees;
Practice 3

This practice covers the following topics:

• Creating queries that use functions

• Creating queries that use conditional expressions

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