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From: Lennart Jonsson <erik.lennart.jonsson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Subject: Re: CASE issue
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:25:12 +0100
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On 11/24/2014 11:37 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Lennart Jonsson (erik.lennart.jonsson@gmail.com) writes:
>> I think (don't have time to look it up now) the SQL-standard says that
>> the result of the CASE statement is the first condition that evaluates
>> to true. From your answer I get the impression that this is not true for
>> SQL-server, correct?
>
> That is indeed true. The issue is that the expression on the left-hand side
> is reevaluated for every branch in the CASE.
>

I see, thanks


/Lennart