Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statem

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements?

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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

--when you have a long series of mutually exclusive
conditions and comparison is numeric
--CPU time is reduced when using SELECT 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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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

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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Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

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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