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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs
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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs

by Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
454 pages
14h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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IF Statements

The IF statement allows you to design conditional logic into your programs, and comes in three flavors, as shown in Table 1-4.

Table 1-4. Types of IF statements

IF type

Characteristics

IF condition THEN END IF;

This is the simplest form of the IF statement. The condition between IF and THEN determines whether the set of statements between THEN and END IF should be executed. If the condition evaluates to FALSE, the code is not executed.

IF condition THEN ELSE END IF;

This combination implements an either/or logic: based on the condition between the IF and THEN keywords, execute the code either between THEN and ELSE or between ELSE and END IF. One of these two sections of executable statements is performed.

IF condition1 THEN ELSIF condition2 THEN

ELSE

END IF;

This last and most complex form of the IF statement selects an action from a series of mutually exclusive conditions and then executes the set of statements associated with that condition. If you’re writing IF statements like this using any release from Oracle9i Database Release 1 onwards, you should consider using searched CASE statements instead.

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