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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com>
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Subject: Re: sql can i substitute
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 16:55:45 +0530,
  Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> wrote:
> hi
> 
> table:
> 
> name varchar(10)
> fruit integer
> 
> i want to write an sql statement like this:
> 
> select fruit from table
> 
> which should return 'good' if fruit = 1 and 'bad' if fruit =2 and 'rotten' if 
> fruit =3
> 
> can it be done?

Yes; use a CASE statement.