Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements?
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Answer / sumalatha.ch
select statement is reduced cpu time.and make the programme
easier to read and debug
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Answer / 3nadh
Select Statement executes one of several statements or
group of statements.
If Statement :- Continues processing only those obs that
meet the condition.
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Answer / jothi sankar
--> When renaming of varibales during getting data itself,
--> new varible creation by combining already existing
varibales(eg: Name = FName + LName) to reduce memory usage
--> When nested conditions are less and getting more %
records from base
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