Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements?
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Answer Posted / juan
SELECT statement can do logical test. A SELECT statement
provides an alternative to a series of IF and ELSE IF
statements. It is usually more efficient than IF-THEN/ELSE,
especially if you are recoding a variable into a large
number of categories.
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